Genre: BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR
Across the Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
Details: December 12, 1972, 8:36 p.m. EST: Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt braked to a stop alongside Nansen Crater, keenly aware that they were far, far from home. They had flown nearly a quarter-million miles to the man in the moon’s left eye, landed at its edge, and then driven five miles into this desolate, boulder-strewn landscape.