Jeffrey Kluger Whitman Bassow Award for "best reporting in any medium on international environmental issues" for their work on global warming. Kluger has authored numerous books, most notably "Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13" (October 1994), with coauthor Jim Lovell. "Lost Moon" would become the basis for the Ron Howard film "Apollo 13" (1995) starring Tom Hanks. Kluger would later be a technical consultant for, and appear in, the movie "Apollo 13: The IMAX Experience". His other books about the space program are: His other works include: Jeffrey Kluger Jeffrey Kluger (born 1954) is a senior writer at "Time" magazine
Apollo 17 Apollo 17 Apollo 17 was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program. Launched at 12:33 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on December 7, 1972, with a crew made up of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, it was the last use of Apollo hardware for its original purpose; after Apollo 17, extra Apollo spacecraft were used in the Skylab and Apollo–Soyuz programs. Apollo 17 was the first night launch of a U.S. human spaceflight and the final manned launch of a Saturn V rocket. It was a "J-type mission" which included three