Next, he was assigned as a backup command module pilot for Apollo 14. When Evans was assigned to Apollo 17, the attention was immense on both Evans and his family, recalled his widow, Jan. Some of ...

Related: Apollo 17: NASA's last Apollo moon landing mission in pictures Evans, the command module pilot, was on his first mission to space. He was on combat duty in Vietnam in April 1966 when he ...

The Apollo 17 crew. Clockwise from left: Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, Commander Eugene Cernan. Wikimedia Commons It turned out that the volcanism ...

The crew members were recovered by the USS Ticonderoga. None of the Apollo 17 astronauts flew in space again. The Command Module America is currently on display at Space Center Houston at the ...

(6.3 x 7.9 in.) Though an Apollo 18 had initially been planned, the decision to scrap the project meant the ascent of Apollo 17’s LM “Challenger” also marked the end of all human visits to the moon to ...

In the end, Apollo 17's crew consisted of Command Module pilot Ronald Evans, Lunar Module pilot Harrison Schmitt, and mission commander Eugene "Gene" Cernan. This crew would be the last to leave ...

Pressure from the scientific community saw Schmitt assigned to Apollo 17, joining Cernan and Command Module Pilot (CMP) Ron Evans. But as the crew trained, the managers fretted, for a failed ...