The Apollo 14 astronauts were the last lunar explorers to be quarantined on their return from the Moon.
Such a comms network would be needed for future robotic and lunar explorers, especially for a human outpost located near the South Pole where line of sight communications would be limited.
Harrison Schmitt is the last man to have set foot on moon and the first lunar explorer never to have been a member of Armed Forces.
Future lunar explorers could extract this water for life support or as a source of oxygen and hydrogen fuel.
Some of this prejudice was now unjustified, for the latest models were infinitely more comfortable than the clumsy suits of armor worn by the first lunar explorers.
This greatly expanded the range of the lunar explorers.
A big, colorful Calder mobile (a lunar explorer?)
Spacesuits used by lunar explorers feature 'decompression sphincters' that clamp down and seal off any areas of a spacesuit that suffer damage.
Maybe their attention turns away from actual stars to those on playing fields and red carpets, and they think of lunar explorers only when MTV hands out its moon-man statuettes.
A multi-national group of astronauts in the UN spacecraft land on the Moon, believing themselves to be the first lunar explorers.