Today marks the day of the sixth and final lunar
landing mission of the NASA Apollo program.

The crew of Apollo 17 was, left to right, Commander
Eugene A. Schmitt, Lunar Module Pilot Harrison H.
Cernan, and Command Module Pilot Ronald E.
Evans (seated).

Schmitt took this picture of Cernan posing with the
American flag on the moon’s surface.

Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the moon was
launched on this date in 1969. The flight crew  included
Commander Charles”Pete”Conrad, Command Module
Pilot Richard F. Gordon and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L.
Bean. The mission ended on November 24th with a
successful splashdown.