Apollo 17: the last Moon landing
1972 · Event
Cernan and Schmitt — the only scientist to reach the Moon — spend three days in the Taurus-Littrow valley; no one has been back since.
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- First spacewalk (1965)
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- The Troubles (1968)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Prague Spring (1968)
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