That era continued through several successive moon landings, ending with Apollo 17 in 1972.
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Apollo 17, the last manned expedition to the Moon, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 19, 1972.
Alaska's Apollo 17 display is also in the custody of the state museum.
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"The Apollo 17 rock never had the chance to get into that museum because the fire was in 1973, " he added.
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Similar "goodwill moon rocks" from the final lunar landing, Apollo 17, which flew 40 years ago this month, were also gifted.
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Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 carried biology experiments known as Biostacks 1 and 2 beyond these belts (the moon is about 400, 000 kilometers away).
Mr. Schmitt, an adjunct professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was an Apollo 17 astronaut and a former U.S. senator from New Mexico.
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Apollo 17's Harrison Schmitt -- a geologist at the time, and the only scientist to make the lunar journey -- served a term as U.S. senator from New Mexico, but was defeated in a run for re-election in 1982.
In May he joined with Apollo 17 Commander Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the moon, to support the opening of a new National Flight Academy that will teach math and science to young people through an aviation-oriented camp.
"The Apollo 17 rock was not lost or misplaced ... because between the first landing mission on Apollo 11 and the last on Apollo 17, something happened in Alaska, " assistant U.S. attorney James Barkeley told collectSpace.com in a telephone interview.
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It is thought to be just over 100m years old (Apollo 17 brought back material from the site, which allowed it to be dated), and it is reckoned by Dr Bottke to be the result of the moon encountering one of the first of Baptistina's progeny to arrive in the inner solar system.
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Using those procedures, Swigert and Lovell powered up the command module, and Apollo 13 splashed down safely in the Pacific on April 17, 1970.
Norwegian Cruise Line, backed by private equity firms Apollo Global Management, TPG and holding company Genting HK, also performed well when it listed on Nasdaq on January 17, he said.
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