Apollo 17 Launch
The 363-foot tall Apollo 17 (Spacecraft 114/Lunar Module 12/Saturn 512) space vehicle is seen lifting off from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, at 12:33 a.m. (EST), December 7, 1972. Apollo 17, the final lunar landing mission in NASA's Apollo program, was the first nighttime liftoff of the Saturn V launch vehicle. Aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft were astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander; astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot; and scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot. A two-hour and 40-minute hold delayed the Apollo 17 launching.
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Date: December 7, 1972
Apollo 17 Launch
The 363-foot tall Apollo 17 (Spacecraft 114/Lunar Module 12/Saturn 512) space vehicle is seen lifting off from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, at 12:33 a.m. (EST), December 7, 1972. Apollo 17, the final lunar landing mission in NASA's Apollo program, was the first nighttime liftoff of the Saturn V launch vehicle. Aboard the Apollo 17 spacecraft were astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander; astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot; and scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot. A two-hour and 40-minute hold delayed the Apollo 17 launching.
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Date: December 7, 1972