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Apollo 17 Rolls to the Launch Pad

A ground-level view of the huge Apollo 17 (Spacecraft 114/Lunar Module 12/ Saturn 512) space vehicle on its way to Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC). The Saturn V stack and its mobile launch tower are atop a mammoth crawler-transporter. The crew for the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission was Eugene A. Cernan, commander; Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot; and scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot. The mission launched on December 7, 1972.

 

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Image Number: S72-48729

Date: August 28, 1972

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Taken on August 28, 1972