During the third extravehicular activity (EVA) in the Apollo 17 mission, Commander Eugene A. Cernan captured this image of fellow astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt standing next to an enormous boulder.

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As Apollo 17 splashed down on Dec. 19, 1972, to complete its lunar mission, few people predicted that astronauts Eugene A. Cernan and Harrison H. Schmitt would be the last humans to set foot on ...

U.S. Astronaut Harrison Schmitt was the last passenger to ride in the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the moon and has some thoughts on what the new one being developed by General Motors and Lockheed ...

On Dec. 11, 1972, man walked on the moon for the last time. Apollo 17 lifted off on Dec. 7, 1972, with astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander; astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot; and ...

Harrison H. Schmitt has been named the 30th recipient of the Medal in honor of Ian Campbell for Superlative Service to the ... He was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in June 1965.

Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt is the most recent living person to walk on the moon. Last Updated: Feb. 17, 2024 at 6:52 a.m. ET First Published: Feb. 16, 2024 at 4:46 p.m. ET.