The Apollo 17 command module, with astronauts Eugene A.Cernan, Ronald E. Evans
and Harrison H. Schmitt aboard,reentered Earth’s atmosphere and splashed down
safely in the Pacific Ocean at 2:25 PM, 4 miles from the recovery ship, USS
Ticonderoga and about 350 nautical miles southeast of the Samoan Islands,
thus concluding the final lunar landing mission in the Apollo program.

Apollo 17 insignia

Apollo 17 crew from Left to right: Schmitt, Cernan (seated), Evans

Michel de Nostredame (December 14, 1503 – July 2, 1566)

Nostradamus was a French apothecary, astrologer, and foreteller who was one
of the world’s most famous authors of prophecies. His published collection of
prophecies (The Prophecies, 1555) has rarely been out of print since his death.

 
The Prophecies

 
Gemini 7 crew from left: James A. Lovell, Jr and Frank F. Borman

Gemini 7 (officially Gemini VII) was the 4th manned flight in NASA’s Gemini program,
the 12th manned American flight and the 20th spaceflight of all time. The crew of
Frank F. Borman, II and James A. Lovell, Jr (above) spent nearly 13 2/3 days in
space for a total of 206 orbits, and were joined on orbit by the Gemini-6A flight
which performed the first rendezvous maneuver of manned spacecraft.

Above picture taken during the rendezvous of Gemini 6 and 7

Pioneer 10  is a robotic space probe launched on March 2, 1972 by an Atlas rocket
from Cape Canaveral, Florida and reached it’s destination on Dec. 3, 1973. This was
the completion of the first interplanetary mission to Jupiter, and became the first spacecraft to achieve escape velocity from the Solar System. During the mission, the planets asteroid belt was studied by on-board instruments along with the environment around Jupiter, solar wind, cosmic rays were also studied by the probe. Communication has been lost since January 23, 2003 because of power constraints due to its distance from Earth.