The last lunar landing occurred in December, 1972. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, a non moon mission, where an American Apollo capsule docked with a Russion Soyuz Capsule, took place in 1975.
The lunar landing missions lasted from 1969 to 1972, however the Apollo prgram itself had started as far back as 1960, with the first Saturn rocket tests occuring in October, 1961.
From Wikipedia: "Apollo 17 was the eleventh manned space mission in the NASA Apollo program. It was the first night launch of a U.S. human spaceflight and the sixth and final lunar landing mission of...
The space race began in 1957, when the soviets launched an artificial satellite. (sputnik I) The United states responded by launching Explorer I in 1958 and later that year, the space program NASA,...
The exact reason why it was named "The Apollo Program" remains a mystery, although the name does derive from the Greek god Apollo, the god of light, sun, truth, prophecy, medicine, healing, plague,...