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Apollo 17 Extravehicular Activity

Astronaut on the moon with lunar boulder
Source: NASA/Eugene Cernan
Published: April 4, 2018

On Dec. 13, 1972, scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt is photographed standing next to a huge, split lunar boulder during the third Apollo 17 extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. 

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