Free Astronomy Magazine July-August 2019

a few years it would have been possible to send astronauts to Mars and that going back to the Moon would have been a simple routine. Instead, 50 years after the epic ad- venture of Apollo 11, we are still waiting to find out who will land where and when. In recent decades, governments and private space agencies have presented many landing projects A POLLO 17 − Above, a view from the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) Tra- verse. The Station Surface Electrical Properties (SEP) Experiment is towards the lunar module. Below, exploration scenes with the LRV. [NASA, Project Apollo Archive]