December 7, 1972 - Apollo 17 becomes the last mission to bring people to the Moon

Apollo program closed with remarkable achievements in the development history of space science.

December 7, 1972 - Apollo 17 performs the task of bringing people to the Moon

Apollo 17 is the flight of the Apollo program of the United States, which is also the sixth and final landing of humans on the Moon. Apollo 17 left Earth on December 7, 1972 from the Kennedy Space Center , astronauts in the ship, including commanders Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt. Astronaut Ronald Evans controlled the ship above the Moon, while Cernan and Schmitt landed on the Moon with a landing chamber on December 11, 1972. They stayed on the surface of the Raven for more than three days to collect soil and rock samples and perform scientific experiments.

This is also the first time NASA made a spaceship launch at night and was also the first test of the latest generation rocket in the United States, Saturn V. This last mission also broke the record of previous launches as the time on the Moon was the longest, the manned flight to the Moon with the longest time, the specimen brought back was the specimen. The largest of the Moon has been exploited and many other achievements.

Eugene Cernan, after returning to Earth, acknowledged that the experience of the Moon had impacted astronauts profoundly, making them change their inner lives. He explained: " We not only physically leave the Earth but also spiritually. I have seen a small part of God's creation. I say this in the spiritual sense and not in the sense. When you look at the earth with its magnificent grandeur, you can only conclude that it cannot be completely created randomly, so you return to earth with a changed person. But I don't live in the past, I live for the future.

Apollo love affair closed with remarkable achievements in the development history of space science , in addition to the Apollo 17 Saturn V missile became an important factor in bringing the first space station. First, Skylab, go to space, followed by the crew with a lot of scientific equipment. This success is not small, but mainly in the field of science. Thanks to the telescope on Skylab, people have discovered that fluctuations in dark areas in the Sun's atmosphere affect climate change on Earth.