On December 7, 1972, the mighty Saturn V rocket lit up the Florida night sky, carrying Eugene Cernan, Harrison “Jack” Schmitt, and Ronald Evans on humanity’s final Apollo mission to the Moon. 🌕 The launch was so bright that even roosters thought morning had arrived early 🐓☀️. While Evans stayed in orbit “house-sitting” the Command Module, Cernan and Schmitt descended in the Lunar Module Challenger and explored the Taurus-Littrow Valley. They planted the flag, set up experiments, drove the luna

On Apollo 10's way to the Moon in 1969, a cloud of fiberglass particles was released into the spacecraft after a cover in the command module's tunnel hatch was torn. Commander Tom Stafford recalled, "The particles itched like hell and it took us hours to clean up what we could." 📽️ Video taken from inside the Command Module during the Apollo 10 mission | NASA History