Looking Forward to NASA's Artemis I: Apollo 17 Earthrise—December 1972

Looking Forward to NASA's Artemis I: Apollo 17 Earthrise—December 1972

Apollo 17: 50th Anniversary (1972-2022) Image

This is a spectacular Earthrise view from lunar orbit on December 16, 1972, during NASA's Apollo 17 Moon Mission. Apollo 17 crew: Commander Gene Cernan, Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, and Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans. Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the final deep space mission of NASA's Apollo program—the most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon or traveled beyond low Earth orbit. 

This is a historic image. 

NASA/JSC Catalog# AS17-152-23274

Learn about NASA's Apollo Program—Apollo 7-17 (1968-1972):

https://history.nasa.gov/apollo.html

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/nasa-knows/what-was-apollo-program-58.html

Through Artemis, NASA aims to land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, heralding a new era for space exploration and utilization. The Artemis missions are increasingly complex endeavours that will lay the foundation for sustainable human and robotic exploration of Earth's only natural satellite, the Moon.

Learn about NASA's Artemis Program:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis-i/

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1

Read the Artemis Plan (74-page PDF Free Download): 

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/artemis_plan-20200921.pdf

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS)

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/index.html

NASA's Orion Spacecraft

https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/orion/about/index.html

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)/PipploIMP

Image Date: December 16, 1972

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