Artemis, moon and Apollo
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The Artemis II launched from Florida, sending a crew of four astronauts on a mission around the moon, but before this could happen the Apollo 17 crew landed on the moon 50 years ago.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apollo 17’s Gene Cernan spoke some of the last words from the surface of the moon on December 14, 1972: “And, as we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came and, God ...
A Titusville resident shares vivid memories of witnessing the historic Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 launches from Florida.
The late Gene Cernan became the 11th person to walk on the moon in 1972 and was the last human to leave a footprint on its surface. In an unreleased clip from a 2013 documentary, Cernan left a message for future crews who planned to head out on a lunar mission.
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Study measures titanium in Apollo rocks to probe the moon’s early chemistry
Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have detected trivalent titanium in a 3.8-billion-year-old lunar rock collected during the Apollo 17 mission, offering direct chemical evidence that the Moon’s interior was far more oxygen-poor and hotter than many models assumed.