It has now been 50 years since astronauts last launched to the moon.
NASA's Apollo 17 mission lifted off on Dec. 7, 1972, sending Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans toward Earth's nearest neighbor. The trio arrived in orbit around the moon three days later.
Evans remained in lunar orbit aboard the mission's command module, named America. Cernan and Schmitt took the lunar module Challenger to the surface, touching down on the southeastern rim of the moon's Mare Serenitatis ("Sea of Serenity") on Dec. 11.
Vocabulary:
• TO SWEEP
To clean something, especially a floor by using a brush to collect the dirt into one place from which it can be removed.
• TO KEEP THE SHARKS AWAY
An expression that means to keep ennemies or people against the program away.
• TO BORROW
To get or receive something from someone with the intention of giving it back after a period of time.
• SHOULDER
One of the two parts of the body at each side of the neck that join the arms to the rest of the body.
Source: Reuters / space.com