All told, Eugene Cernan, who was the last man on the moon, spent 22 hours over three days walking and driving around Taurus-Littrow, Apollo 17's landing site on the edge of the Sea of Serenity ...

Lunar samples collected by NASA astronauts during the Apollo Moon ... when the US donated a second lunar rock to Ireland ...

Since the Apollo era, the lunar samples have been stored at NASA's Johnson Space Centre in Houston and are available for research. All lunar samples analysed in the laboratory in Göttingen were ...

The Apollo 17 sample, which unlike the Apollo 11 display exhibited a 0.04-ounce (1.142-gram) stone that had been cut from a single rock and then mounted to a wooden plaque, was briefly planned to ...

Adding the LRVs changed everything, allowing the astronauts to collect a sample then rest while the ... 65 yards from the spacecraft. By Apollo 17, the LRVs took the men about 17 miles in total.