FILE - In this Monday, May 3, 2021, file photo, a fragment of the moon rock collected by astronaut John Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar mission, is displayed, in Washington. Louisiana has ...
A spectator looks at a tiny piece of moon rock encased in a plastic globe, on display at the an exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the last of the U.S. manned missions to the moon and ...
WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - During the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 - the last time people walked on the moon - U.S. astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan collected about 243 pounds (110.4 kg) ...
Apollo 17, NASA's final Moon landing mission of the Apollo program taking place in 1972, brought back samples from the lunar surface, which are still being studied today. A new study has been ...
Fifty years ago, the last human set foot on the Moon. The Apollo 17 mission brought back a wealth of lunar samples, but some were left untouched until now. The UK’s National History Museum researchers ...
NASA scientists have unsealed an extraterrestrial time capsule 50 years after astronauts collected the rock and dust from the moon and sealed it away before returning to Earth. The precious sample ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Half a century after ...