The Blue Marble photo, showing Earth as Apollo 17 astronauts saw it. NASA The once-in-a-lifetime shot showcases the African continent, which is almost completely visible and backed by the swirling ...

Apollo 17 rocks reveal a strange connection between the Moon and Earth. ... Earth’s magnetic field is weaker than those belonging to ... Space Frontiers/Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...

Shortly after midnight, 50 years ago this morning, the Apollo 17 mission lifted off from Florida. With Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, and Ron Evans on board, this was NASA's sixth and final ...

The Apollo 17 crew didn’t set out to capture such an iconic image, said Stephen Garber, a historian in NASA’s history division. Nor was it a key component of the mission plan.

Find out how “Blue Marble,” NASA’s iconic photo of a fully illuminated Earth, was taken. ... That happened as soon as Apollo 17 returned to Earth on December 19th.

Liftoff of the Apollo 17 Saturn V Moon Rocket from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, at 12:33 a.m., December 17, 1972. Apollo 17, the final lunar landing mission, was the ...

During the Apollo 17 Mission's first extravehicular activity (EVA) on the surface of the moon, astronaut Harrison H. "Jack" Schmitt was photographed by Eugene Cernan. The flag, also reflected in ...