1972: Apollo 17 (NASA)

Apollo 17 was the eleventh manned space mission in the NASA Apollo programme. It was the first night launch of a U.S. human spaceflight and the sixth and final lunar landing mission. The mission was launched at 12:33 a.m. EST on 7 December 1972, and concluded on December 19.

One of the last two men to set foot on the Moon was also the first scientist-astronaut, geologist Harrison ("Jack") Schmitt. While Evans circled in America, Schmitt and Cernan collected a record 109 lb (49 kg) of rocks during three Moonwalks. The crew roamed for 34 km (21 mi) through the Taurus-Littrow valley in their rover, discovered orange-colored soil, and left the most comprehensive set of instruments in the ALSEP on the lunar surface. Their mission was the last in the Apollo lunar landing missions. The last 4 Apollo craft were used for the three Skylab missions and the ASTP, mission in 1975.

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[20jklm]

@Maxhoulenabelsi No offence but an intelligent person will fight more to prove the veracity of those landings, that its fakeness, then, do you believe that in all the vastness of the universe we are confined to this small and lonely place, I'm sorry but a smart people being American or not (my case) do not approve of your thinking. I cannot agree!!!, and advise to you and all the hoax supporters to expand your minds!!, that mammn and brainless R.E.M's song.

[nickyp28]

The fact that people still don't believe Apollo was real over 40 years after Apollo 8 reached the moon and orbited it shows just how bloody amazing Apollo was!

[YDDES]

@pauze3232 Also: Real archelogists have quite good theories about HOW ancient people moved big, heavy rocks. It isn't a total mystery. And, it has NOTHING to do with our ability to send people to Moon and Mars. We can build supersonic jets, nuclear bombs, TV's, computers, submarines, space stations and so on, despite not perfect cellphones and despite that the ancients could move big rocks. So why not going to Moon? I can't see the connection.

[YDDES]

@pauze3232 Moving heavy rocks demands powerful cranes and the like. In the cellphone system, thousands of telephones must share the same radio frequency, which can create problems when very many users make calls at the same time. Nothing of that has anything to do with going to Moon. We have a space station, You know. Every bit has been transported there by big rockets and space ships. Just building rockets able to proceed to Moon isn't harder. On the contrary, it's easier.

[YDDES]

@pauze3232 "Docking" means one can connect several rockets in Earth orbit before proceeding to Mars to get a spaceship with more place for the crew and more fuel. That's actually no technical problem. It's a money problem.

Never heard of "free fall"? That's the condition in which every satellite and spaceship is in outer space. No fuel needed once the needed velocity is reached, since there's noththing that brakes the movement in vacuum.

[pauze3232]

@pauze3232 oh yea they knew more about astrology then us also

[pauze3232]

@YDDES so where do you plan on docking the same place the enterprise did? An how convenient that its just a free fall there let me guess just a free fall to get also right. If they can do all this why are all talking a one way mission to mars maybe you'll volunteer yourself. Oh yea you still haven't answered any of my questions that I talked about i wonder why?UNTIL YOU CAN MOVE THE ROCKS THE ANCIENT PEOPLE DID WE CAN'T GO TO SPACE USE YOUR HEAD!!1

[YDDES]

@pauze3232 "...the moon could be any were from33 million miles to 249 million away...". You probably mean Mars, not Moon. Of course one would go to Mars when it's as closest to Earth, and not just "on one tank". You must have heard of multi-stage rockets and docking in space. And, when You have reached just above 11.2 km/sec (escape velocity for Earth), You will need no more fuel before it's time to brake at the arrival at Mars. It's just a "free fall" through space.

[pauze3232]

@pauze3232 the two just think if you were allegedly gone to the moon in 1972 that cell phones might work better then they do. Just as I feel that if you have allegedly been to the moon we should be able to move rocks that the ancient people moved that we can't move but let me guess different technology huh. Also so if you feel the moon landings are real I didn't see you comment on any of my other comments on the page hmmm

[pauze3232]

@YDDES Wow the energy is weird today because just today I was looking to see how long to get to the moon one way and your right It didn't say 4yrs one way but it was hard to find one answer the longest I saw though was 1yr and a half. Through my research I "not that I believe any of it" but different sources said that the moon could be any were from33 million miles to 249 million away which is quite a ways to travel on one tank of gas. now about the space and cell phones not comparing

[YDDES]

@Sanubste What do You know about "what they would not risk"? The astronauts were the best of the best of military test pilots. Used to risk their lives on an almost daily basis. Voluntarily.

USA couldn't risk to fake the lunar landings. They would have been exposed in seconds by all the experts the world around, who knew the science and technology way better than You seem to do.

Give me a reason why we should have been wasting billions on keeping on flying to Moon, please!

[YDDES]

@pauze3232 The problem is, You have a very bad understanding of technology. You mix cellphones with rockets. That's like mixing frying pans with locomotives. Totally different technologies.

"Mars four years away, one way"??? Who told You that fairytale?