🛰️ Mission
Apollo 17
The last time anyone stood on the Moon.
- Launched
- 7 December 1972, 53 years ago
- Landed
- 11 December 1972
- Worked for
- 12 days, until 19 December 1972
- Built by
- NASA
- Where it is
- Its lander and its electric car are still parked in the Taurus-Littrow valley
- Best known for
- Three days on the surface, 22 hours of them outside, and the only geologist ever to work there
Did you know?
- Harrison Schmitt was a trained geologist. Every other Moonwalker was a pilot.
- On the way out the crew took the Blue Marble, the photograph of the whole lit Earth that has been reprinted more than almost any other.
Where it went
The Moon
Earth’s only natural moon, and the only other world people have walked on.
Earth
Our home, the only world known to have life.
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All of missions
Hubble Space Telescope
Thirty-six years above the weather, and still working.
James Webb Space Telescope
A golden mirror that sees the first galaxies in infrared.
Chandra X-ray Observatory
The telescope that shows what is hot and violent.
Spitzer Space Telescope
Sixteen years of infrared, through dust that hides everything else.
Kepler
Stared at one patch of sky and found thousands of planets.
TESS
Kepler’s successor, watching the whole sky for planets.