Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 11, 1972, Apollo 17 became the last mission to launch humans on the moon. ['On This Day in Space' Video Series on ...

[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some old documentation which ...

Shaving was something of a job on all the Apollo missions because in Zero-G, water doesn't just run off the face. Flickr/NASA Photo/ Project Apollo Archive The last human to walk on the moon was ...

A half century after NASA's Apollo 17 lunar module lifted off the moon's northeastern near side quadrant, planetary scientists still don't completely understand when or how our moon first formed. They ...

Dec. 11 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1816, Indiana joined the United States as its 19th state. In 1936, Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.

NASA astronauts Dave Scott and Jim Irwin landed the Apollo 15 lunar module Falcon in the Moon’s Hadley-Apennine region 55 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — America’s most daring, extraordinary feat — landing astronauts on the moon — remains the pinnacle of achievement by anyone anywhere. Ever. And the lunar lander — a ...

(NewsNation) — In 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts went on their mission to the moon, but until Friday, the majority of the world did not know what the three men witnessed on their mission, such as lights ...