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OTD In Space - December 7: NASA Launches Apollo 17

On Dec. 7, 1972, NASA launched the last crew to land on the moon with the Apollo 17 mission. Three NASA astronauts flew to the moon that day: Gene Cernan was the commander, Ronald Evans was the ...
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OTD In Space - December 11: Apollo 17 Astronauts Land On The Moon

On Dec. 11, 1972, Apollo 17 became the last mission to launch humans on the moon. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] With two astronauts on board, the lunar module Challenger touched ...
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Setting of the Moon: Apollo 17, Forty Years Later

Ron Evans fell sound asleep in the command module of Apollo 17 when he and his crewmates were waiting to take off. It wasn’t easy to doze off in an Apollo spacecraft, least of all when you’re flat on ...
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30 Years Later, Apollo 17 Astronauts Relive Last Moon Landing

Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt to Appear at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Friday, Dec. 13 ...
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The Soviet rocket explosion that nearly changed Apollo 11, inside the N1 moon booster disaster at Baikonur

In July 1969, the Soviet N1 moon rocket detonated at Baikonur just days before Apollo 11, exposing how close, and how fragile, the Moon Race really was. Then an even darker launchpad catastrophe in ...
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On this date: Apollo-Soyuz, the last Apollo flight

(WHTM) On July 15, 1975, two rockets blasted off into space. The Soviet Union’s Soyuz 19 launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:20 a.m. EDT, carrying cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Valery ...
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A Handshake in Orbit 50 Years Ago Transformed the Space Race

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human spaceflight. A 1973 artist’s concept of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, with the ...