Manned Space Flight, USA, Apollo, General Apollo Lunar Module on the Moon, 1971-1972

Manned Space Flight, USA, Apollo, General Apollo Lunar Module on the Moon, 1971-1972. This view from one of the later Apollo Moon landing missions shows the Passive Seismometer Experiment Package (PSEP) in the foreground, with the Lunar Module in the distance in a flat landscape. NASA sent seven manned missions to land on the Moon between 1969 and 1972, although the third, Apollo 13, had to return to Earth without landing after an explosion on board. The first, Apollo 11, landed astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin ÔBuzzÕ Aldrin on the lunar surface in July 1969. Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt were the last humans to walk on the Moon in December 1972. ©SSPL/NASA