Apollo 17 - NASA
The Apollo Program's last lunar landing mission, and the first to include an astronaut-scientist, landed in the Moon's Taurus-Littrow Valley.
www.nasa.govHere’s the latest available on the Apollo program, focusing on the last mission to land on the Moon.
- The last Apollo Moon landing was Apollo 17 in December 1972, with the crew of Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, and Ronald Evans. NASA’s official page highlights Apollo 17 as the final lunar landing mission, notable for including a scientist-astronaut [NASA: Apollo 17].[7]
- Apollo 17 achieved a historic surface mission in Taurus-Littrow Valley, carrying extensive geological sampling and the lunar rover to extend exploration range, marking the culmination of NASA’s Apollo-era Moon landings [NASA: Apollo 17].[7]
- Public memory and historical coverage emphasize that Apollo 17 closed the chapters of manned Moon landings for several decades, with subsequent human space exploration shifting toward the Space Shuttle era and later Artemis program planning [Space.com retrospective on Apollo 17].[3][4]
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