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Spacecraft launched in 1972
Apollo 17In September 1970, NASA canceled the planned launch of Apollo 18. This decision sent shockwaves through the agency's crew rotation schedule.
Pioneer 10In the 1960s, American aerospace engineer Gary Flandro of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory conceived a mission known as the Planetary Grand Tour.
Apollo 16On the 21st of April 1972, at 8:23:35 PM Houston time, Charles Duke stepped onto the lunar surface. He was thirty-six years old and became the youngest human…