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Artemis 1 vs Apollo 17: Which was the greater challenge?

Packed on board NASA’s Orion spacecraft, now on its way back from orbiting the moon, is a small badge representing the last mission to land astronauts on the lunar surface.

The Apollo 17 mission patch, which was flown on the uncrewed Artemis 1 capsule at the request (opens in new tab) of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, is a souvenir from the 1972 flight that saw Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt become the 11th and 12th humans to walk on the moon, while their crewmate Ron Evans remained in lunar orbit. It was the sixth and, to date, final time astronauts stepped foot on a world other than Earth.

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