Published 3 December 2012
NASA astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt explored the surface of the moon during the Apollo 17 mission of December 7-19, 1972, the last time any human has left Earth's orbit or set foot on the moon. VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports that during a 40th-anniversary celebration of Apollo 17 in Chicago, the astronauts said they had expected their mission would start a path toward space travel, not become a history lesson.