Apollo 17—like Apollos XV and XVI—left tire tracks nearly everywhere they traveled. In the windless, rainless, erosion-free environment, the tracks endure, close to half-a-century on.

Since then, humans walked on the moon five more times, ending with Apollo 17 in 1972. No one has set foot on the moon since.

(AP Photo/John Raoux) Four people are about to embark on a journey that will take them farther from Earth than anyone has traveled since 1972 when Apollo 17 astronauts landed on the moon.

Then, after Apollo 17 had surged upward like a fiery angel, the darkness returned. CCI ARCHIVES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY President Nixon speaks to the astronauts aboard the USS Hornet on 24 July 1969.

Blasting off early Tuesday on a mission that is a first of its kind, the crew's Dragon spacecraft traveled higher than any human-rated spacecraft since the NASA Apollo 17 mission in 1972.

Fifty years on, the Apollo Moon programme is probably still humankind's single greatest technological achievement. On 16 July 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were ...

But unlike its competitors, Apollo gets the lion's share of its growth ... it had grown between 16 or 17 times over, numbers that Rowan said are rare in financial services. "We actually outgrew ...

Apollo Global Management Inc. clinched $5 billion in fresh firepower from BNP Paribas SA as it looks to grow a key lending business, muscling deeper into turf once dominated by banks. The French ...

Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Company and Apollo's annuity and retirement services unit, Athene, will also participate in the program, the companies said on Thursday.

The Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio, a key valuation measure, is calculated by dividing the stock's most recent closing price by the sum of the diluted earnings per share from continuing operations ...