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The final Apollo missions: two views of the Saturn V rocket (Apollo 17) lifting off at night; two views of the Saturn V rocket (Apollo 16) before and during liftoff, Cape Canaveral, Florida, December 7, 1972
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The final Apollo missions: two views of the Saturn V rocket (Apollo 17) lifting off at night; two views of the Saturn V rocket (Apollo 16) before and during liftoff, Cape Canaveral, Florida, December 7, 1972

NASA [Apollo 17]

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The final Apollo missions: two views of the Saturn V rocket (Apollo 17) lifting off at night; two views of the Saturn V rocket (Apollo 16) before and during liftoff, Cape Canaveral, Florida, December 7, 1972
NASA [Apollo 17]
i. The Saturn V rocket (Apollo 17) lifting off at night, Cape Canaveral, Florida, December 7, 1972
Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 21.6 x 27.9cm (8 ½ x 11in), with 'This Paper Manufactured By Kodak' watermarks on verso

ii. The Saturn V rocket (Apollo 17) lifting off at night, Cape Canaveral, Florida, December 7, 1972
Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA caption and 'This Paper Manufactured By Kodak' watermarks on verso

iii. The Saturn V rocket (Apollo 16) lifting off, Cape Canaveral, Florida, April 16, 1972
Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered 'S-72-35340' in red on top margin on recto, with 'A Kodak Paper' watermarks on verso

iv. The Saturn V rocket (Apollo 16) approaching launch complex 39, pad A, Cape Canaveral, Florida, April 16, 1972
Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered 'S-72-19795' in red on top margin on recto, with 'A Kodak Paper' watermarks on verso

Note du spécialiste

In photographs i. and ii., the giant Saturn V rocket lights up the night sky at the Kennedy Space Center shortly after midnight on December 7, 1972 - the only night launch of the program. An estimated 750,000 spectators were on hand.

“I really wasn’t sure the crazy thing was going to stay together. Even to read the gauge was almost a guess,” remembered astronaut Ronald Evans (Chaikin, Voices, p.20).

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