Listen to the Artemis 1 Orion capsule phone home | Final moon mission Apollo 17 launched 50 years ago today | Mars helicopter Ingenuity soars on 35th Red Planet flight
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Orion broadcasts its data signal toward Earth, where it is received by NASA's Deep Space Network, but amateur observers can also tune in throughout the mission.
NASA's Apollo 17 mission lifted off on Dec. 7, 1972, sending Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans toward Earth's nearest neighbor. The trio arrived in orbit around the moon three days later.
Space quiz! It has now been 50 years since astronauts last launched to the moon aboard Apollo 17. What was the name of the command module that remained in orbit around the moon during the mission?
On Wednesday (Dec. 7) the moon will reach its full moon phase as December's aptly-named Cold Moon, the final full moon of 2022, rises for most of the night.
(NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab)
New research may have solved the puzzle of how amino acids formed within the space rocks that are thought to have seeded Earth with the building blocks of life.
Measurements taken at Earth's neighbors, Mars and Venus, show the battle between high-energy cosmic rays from beyond the solar system and the influence of the sun in the inner solar system.
