Apollo 17's astronauts spent a record 22 hours performing extravehicular activities on the moon. The astronauts drove about 21 miles (34 kilometers) in the lunar rover and brought back 108 ...

The last time anyone drove on the Moon was way back in 1972 when the astronauts of Apollo 17 took the Lunar Roving Vehicle for one last spin. Now, NASA is plotting a return to the Moon’s surface ...

Apollo 17 was the last mission to place human on the moon 50 years ago. The rocket lifted off Dec. 7, 1972, and the crew stepped onto the moon Dec. 11.

On Dec. 19, 1972, the Apollo 17 crew returned to Earth. Apollo 17 was the sixth and last Apollo mission in which humans walked on the lunar surface.

As political support for Moon landings waned, the crew of Apollo 17 ensured the program ended on a scientific high. ... (30.5 km) in the lunar rover and gathered 243 pounds (110.4 km) of samples.

It's been a half-century since humans last set foot on the Moon. But Apollo 17 served as a fantastic swan song for the ambitious program.

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 ...

Although the historic Apollo 11 mission made do with a 2.5-hour walkabout on the lunar surface, Apollo missions 15, 16, and 17 each had their own lunar buggy to drive around the moon’s powdery ...

Intuitive Machines' lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) is not your grandfather's moon buggy. The company's Moon RACER, or Reusable Autonomous Crewed Exploration Rover, just made its public debut.

"So the lunar rover has the most accurate detail I think I have ever seen in in a Lego set. ... (LRV-3) on its first drive on the moon during NASA's Apollo 17 mission in December 1972.

The Lunar Communications Relay Unit on the vehicle enabled correspondence to and from the lunar rover during the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions.