Timeline Tuesday 19 December 1972

Events on Tuesday 19 December 1972 1

• 1972 Apollo 17 makes final crewed Moon landing Last humans to walk on the lunar surface Apollo 17 launched on the sixth and final crewed Moon landing mission, with astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spending over three days on the lunar surface. Cernan remains the last person to have walked on the Moon. The mission also produced the famous "Blue Marble" photograph of Earth.