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.
Zond 5 Zond 5, a member of the Soviet Zond program, was an unmanned spacecraft that in September 1968 became the second ship to travel to and circle the moon, and the first to return safely to Earth. Although unmanned, Zond 5 carried the first Earthlings to reach the moon, including two tortoises, mealworms, wine flies, plants, and other lifeforms, and was also the first to return moon travelers safely to Earth.