
What Did NASA Find On The Last Ever Moon Mission?
Apollo 17 was the final crewed mission to the Moon, and this film rebuilds it through the people who flew and ran it. Commander Eugene Cernan and geologist-turned-astronaut Harrison Schmitt, the only scientist to walk on the lunar surface, narrate their own mission in archival interviews, paired with NASA footage of the launch, the long drive across the Taurus-Littrow valley in the lunar rover, and the sample collection that filled their return capsule. The film tracks why this landing site was chosen over the others on the shortlist, what Schmitt's geology training let the mission see that earlier crews missed, and how the orange soil he found changed thinking about the Moon's volcanic past. Mission control audio and contemporary television coverage fill in the view from Houston. It closes on the last words spoken from the lunar surface and the decades since in which nobody has gone back, framing Apollo 17 as an ending nobody at the time expected to be permanent.