Is it easier to touch down on the moon for a sixth time or to enter Earth's atmosphere with a new, never-tried approach? Packed on board NASA's Orion spacecraft, now on its way back from orbiting the ...

An Apollo 17 astronaut stands on the moon’s surface in 1972 with the United States flag in the background. Apollo 17 was the seventh and last manned lunar landing and return-to-Earth mission. | NASA ...

The Apollo 17 mission, NASA’s final crewed expedition to the Moon in December 1972, returned with valuable lunar samples, including material from the “Light Mantle,” a bright and unusual deposit at ...

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Analysis of previously untouched preserved core samples from the mysterious 'Light Mantle' landslide shed light on what ...

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The 1972 Apollo 17 lunar module’s ascent from the Moon was captured by a camera mounted on a rover left behind on the lunar surface and controlled from Earth, although social media posts are using the ...