Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. Last year, a spacecraft built by Intuitive ...

These are a battery pack, a communications unit, and the unique-to-Apollo-17 Traverse Gravimeter Experiment (TGE). The TGE was used to measure the moon’s gravity and geological substructure.

"We leave as we came... with peace and hope for all mankind," Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan said as he took man's last steps on the moon. It's been 45 years since the launch of Apollo 17 ...