Sentences with phrase «final lunar mission»

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The lunar rover, nicknamed the moon buggy, was used on the final three Apollo missions.

Jeffrey Taylor of the University of Hawaii says it was the final Apollo missions of 1972 that propelled lunar science and transformed our understanding of the moon.

It had been nearly 45 years since Schmitt bunny - hopped his way across the low - gravity lunar landscape in December 1972 during the final Apollo mission; half of Apollo's 12 moon walkers have now died.

China also characterized it as a final test of the new rocket before November's scheduled launch of the Chang» e-5 lunar sample return mission.