Saturn V delivered men to the Moon for the last time, in which NASA mission?
1972 in spaceflight 1972 saw humanity's last manned mission to the moon of the 20th century, Apollo 17. This was also the final flight of the Saturn V rocket, and its only night launch.
Apollo 10 Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, and the second (after Apollo 8) to orbit the Moon. Launched on May 18, 1969, it was the F mission: a "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon landing, testing all of the components and procedures, just short of actually landing. The Lunar Module (LM) followed a descent orbit to within 8.4 nmi of the lunar surface, at the point where powered descent for landing would normally begin. Its success enabled the first landing to be attempted on the Apollo 11 mission two months later.