Apollo 17
About the Mission
The final Apollo mission and the last time humans walked on the Moon. Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt, a professional geologist, spent over 3 days on the surface in December 1972. Discovered orange volcanic glass buried in the soil. Cernan left the Moon with a short farewell to the future. No human has traveled beyond low Earth orbit since.
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