
Sujet
Launch of the Apollo 17 mission, 1972. Artist: Unknown
Légende
Launch of the Apollo 17 mission, 1972. Apollo 17 was the last Apollo moon landing mission and the only one to be launched at night. This Saturn V rocket carrying astronauts, Eugene Cernan (Commander), Ronald Evans (Command Module pilot) and Harrison Schmitt (Lunar Module pilot), lifted off from the Kennedy Space Centre, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, on 7 December 1972. Schmitt, the 12th man to walk on the moon, was also the first geologist to set foot on the lunar surface.
Oxford Science Archive
Date
1972
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/NASA
Notre référence
HRM19B63_340
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
49,9Mo (1,9Mo) / 41,9cm x 29,8cm / 4954 x 3522 (300dpi)