Apollo 17

Apollo 17 was the eleventh and final crewed mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above. Schmitt was the only professional geologist to land on the Moon; he was selected in place of Joe Engle, as NASA had been under pressure to send a scientist to the Moon. The mission's heavy emphasis on science meant the inclusion of a number of new experiments, including a biological experiment containing five mice that was carried in the command and service module.

photograph of the Earth, cropped and rotated from one taken by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft

NASA astronaut, Naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, electrical engineer, fighter pilot, eleventh human to walk on the Moon (Apollo 10 and Apollo 17)

Astronaut, geologist, politician, 12th man to walk on the moon (Apollo 17)

type of battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program

NASA astronaut (1933-1990)

thumb|350px|A labeled aerial photo of the Taurus–Littrow valley (north is at the bottom)

mice that flew to the moon on Apollo 17

lunar impact crater

thumb|right|240px|Apollo 17 panoramic camera image from low lunar orbit Bowen-Apollo is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in Taurus-Littrow valley, located at the foot of the Sculptured Hills. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt landed to the southwest of it in 1972, on the Apollo 17 mission. They referred to it as SWP crater during the mission, and a more subdued crater to the southeast of SWP was called Bowen. The IAU formally renamed SWP as Bowen-Apollo. It is located just east of Geology Station 8.

lunar impact crater

lunar impact crater in the Taurus–Littrow valley

lunar impact crater

crater on Earth's Moon in Taurus-Littrow valley

lunar impact crater

lunar impact crater

Apollo lunar crater

lunar impact crater

lunar impact crater

lunar impact crater

lunar impact crater

lunar impact crater

Steno-Apollo is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in Taurus-Littrow valley. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited it in 1972, on the Apollo 17 mission. The astronauts referred to it simply as Steno during the mission. The north rim of Steno is Geology Station 1 of the mission.

lunar impact crater

lunar impact crater

lunar impact crater