Apollo 17: Boulder on the Moon
Twenty five years ago humans roamed the Moon.
Pictured here during the
last moon landing,
scientist-astronaut Harrison Schmitt was
photographed standing
next to a huge, split boulder. Apollo 17 was one of six missions that landed
humans on the moon and returned them safely.
Apollo 17 explored the unusually dark terrain at the
Taurus-Littrow landing site,
deployed explosives to test the internal geology of the
Moon,
and returned the
most rocks of any lunar mission.