Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison 'Jack' Schmitt explains why exploring the Moon continues to be important.

Scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt is photographed standing next to a huge, split lunar boulder during the third Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. In the ...

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LIBERTY — The historic late 1972 launch of the Apollo 17 mission to the moon represented more than a space expedition to merely collect rock samples from the lunar landscape while making history: It ...

Terry Moy's den in Seekonk is like a museum of history. Photos of his life---five children.

Commander Eugene Cernan retrieves a drive tube from the Lunar Roving Vehicle during an Apollo 17 EVA. Samples from one of the Apollo 17 drive tubes was recently opened and analyzed by Brown University ...

If anyone can offer advice to the four NASA astronauts slated to launch Wednesday on a trip around the moon, it’s Harrison Schmitt. Schmitt, 90, left his bootprints on the lunar surface in 1972, as ...

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