NASA Photo ID: S72-54813           File Name: 10075937.jpg
Film Type: 4x5                     Date Taken: 11/30/72
Title: Nighttime scene at Pad A, Launch Complex 39 showing Apollo 17 space vehicle
Description:
Searchlights illuminate this nighttime scene at Pad A, Launch Complex 39, 
Kennedy Space Center, Florida, showing the Apollo 17 (Spacecraft 114/Lunar 
Module 12/Saturn 512) space vehicle during prelaunch preparations. Apollo
17  will be the first nighttime liftoff of the Saturn V launch vehicle.
Note the  full moon in the background.                 

Subject terms:
APOLLO 17 FLIGHT                        
APOLLO PROJECT                          
APOLLO SPACECRAFT                       
FLORIDA                                 
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER                    
LAUNCHING PADS                          
LAUNCHING SITES                         
NIGHT                                   
PREFLIGHT OPERATIONS                    

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