The longest of all, it featured the only night launch of the program ... three days walking and driving around Taurus-Littrow, Apollo 17's landing site on the edge of the Sea of Serenity (which ...

The full "Cold Moon" rising as seen from Stubai Glacier, Austria. It was exactly 50 years since the night-launch of the Apollo 17 mission, the final crewed mission to land humans on the Moon.

Night launches ... a rocket launch from New Smyrna Beach, Daytona Beach and Ormond Beach. Here are some recommended spots: • ...

Starship is scheduled to launch for the sixth time on Monday evening (Nov. 18). Both pieces of SpaceX's Starship megarocket ...

But, a fuel problem caused a delay, and now the launch is planned for 1:05 a.m ... It would become the first since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 to reach the Moon and the first-ever commercial ...

Apollo 17—like Apollos XV and XVI—left tire tracks ... The bottom portion—the mostly gold colored struts and legs—would serve as a launch platform and remain behind. The gray-white moon ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. An illustration of ... the last humans to step on the lunar surface—Apollo 17 astronauts Jack Schmitt and Gene Cernan in ...

The final Apollo mission was the first night launch of the powerful Saturn V rocket ... Then, after Apollo 17 had surged upward like a fiery angel, the darkness returned. CCI ARCHIVES/SCIENCE ...

He is not only one of the most accomplished of the astronauts—he journeyed into space three times, on Gemini 9, Apollo 10, and Apollo 17—but one ... be like a catapult launch on a carrier ...

July 14, 1969 (UPI) -Launch crews, undismayed by an apparent Soviet gamble to upstage them, turned on Apollo 11's vital generators ... Cheese Co. today added a night shift and went into operation ...