Apollo 17, U.S. crewed spaceflight to the Moon, launched on December 7, 1972, and successfully concluded on December 19, 1972.
It was the final flight of the Apollo program, and Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt were the last humans to walk on the Moon.
Cernan, the mission commander, was a seasoned astronaut, who had orbited Earth on Gemini 9 and the Moon (without landing there) on Apollo 10.
Schmitt, the lunar module pilot, held a Ph.D.
In geology and was the first scientist-astronaut to set foot on the Moon.
The third crew member was Ronald Evans, the command module pilot.
Like Cernan, he had been a naval aviator before becoming an astronaut.
