The dramatic night launch of the last human voyage the Moon, NASA [Apollo 17], 7 December 1972


printed 1972
vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper
10 h × 8 w in (25 × 20 cm)

The dramatic last launch of humans to another world. It was the only night launch of the Apollo program. An estimated 750,000 spectators were on hand as the Saturn V rocket lit up the night sky at the Kennedy Space Center shortly after midnight on December 7, 1972.

Numbered to upper margin 'NASA S-72-55070' with 'A Kodak Paper' watermarks to verso.note: Media visuals referencing the original NASA photograph(s) not included.

Literature: LIFE, 29 December 1972, ppg. 6-7 illustrates variation Time, 18 December 1972, pg. 26 illustrates variation Space: A History of Space Exploration in Photographs, Chaikin, pg. 130 Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts, Jacobs, ppg. 6-7

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