Nighttime launch of Apollo 17 – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic photograph of Nighttime launch of Apollo 17 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Nighttime launch of Apollo 17
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This color photograph captures Apollo 17 lifting off from Florida at night, its Saturn V rocket lighting the dark launch area. The launch took place in December 1972 and carried Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt on the last crewed mission to the Moon. The nighttime setting gives the flame and exhaust an intensity that daytime launches rarely show, and the picture stands as a record of the final chapter of the Apollo program.
| Created / published | 1972 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : color. |
| Genre | Photographic prints Color 1970-1980. |
| Notes | Photo from National Aeronautics and Space Administration. |
| Subjects | Apollo 17 (Spacecraft)--1970-1980. Space flight--Florida--1970-1980. Rockets--American--1970-1980. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,450 × 1,150 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217596 |
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