NASA Photo ID: S72-48728 File Name: 10075936.jpg
Film Type: 4x5 Date Taken: 08/28/72
Title: Apollo 17 rollout to launch pad
Description:
A ground-level view at Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center,
showing the Apollo 17 (Spacecraft 114/Lunar Module 12/Saturn 512) space
vehicle arriving at the pad. The Saturn V stack and its mobile launch tower
were moved from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the pad atop a
crawler-transporter. View includes shrubbery on the left, water in center,
and palm tree on right (48728); A close-up ground-level view of Apollo 17
spacec vehicle on its way to Pad A, Launch Complex 39 (48729); A
ground-level view of the Apollo 17 space vehicle leaving the Vehicle
Assembly Building on its way to Pad A, Launch Complex 39, KSC (48730).
Subject terms:
APOLLO 17 FLIGHT
APOLLO PROJECT
APOLLO SPACECRAFT
FACILITIES
FLORIDA
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
LAUNCHING PADS
LAUNCHING SITES
PREFLIGHT OPERATIONS
SATURN LAUNCH VEHICLES
TRANSPORT VEHICLES
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