NASA (Apollo 17)
The dramatic night launch of the last manned mission to the Moon, 7 December 1972
Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based paper, printed 1972, numbered "NASA S-72-55070" (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, with NASA caption and "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on verso, 20,3 x 25,4 cm
This was the only night launch of the Apollo program. An estimated 750,000 spectators were on hand as the Saturn V rocket lit up the night sky at the Kennedy Space Center shortly after midnight on December 7, 1972.
“Apollo 20 was taken off the schedule five months after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had ‘won’ the Moon race. Apollo 18 and 19 were canceled soon afterward, as budget cuts, and changing political priorities, impacted NASA. When Schmitt, Cernan and Evans prepared for a dramatic nighttime launch on December 7, 1972, they knew that
Literature:
LIFE, 29 December 1972, pp. 6-7 (variant); TIME, 18 December 1972, p. 26 (variant); Space: A History of Space Exploration in Photographs, Chaikin, p. 130; Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts, Jacobs, ed., pp. 6-7.
Expertin: Mag. Eva Königseder
Mag. Eva Königseder
+43-1-515 60-421
eva.koenigseder@dorotheum.at
27.09.2023 - 17:34
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NASA (Apollo 17)
The dramatic night launch of the last manned mission to the Moon, 7 December 1972
Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based paper, printed 1972, numbered "NASA S-72-55070" (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, with NASA caption and "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on verso, 20,3 x 25,4 cm
This was the only night launch of the Apollo program. An estimated 750,000 spectators were on hand as the Saturn V rocket lit up the night sky at the Kennedy Space Center shortly after midnight on December 7, 1972.
“Apollo 20 was taken off the schedule five months after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had ‘won’ the Moon race. Apollo 18 and 19 were canceled soon afterward, as budget cuts, and changing political priorities, impacted NASA. When Schmitt, Cernan and Evans prepared for a dramatic nighttime launch on December 7, 1972, they knew that
Literature:
LIFE, 29 December 1972, pp. 6-7 (variant); TIME, 18 December 1972, p. 26 (variant); Space: A History of Space Exploration in Photographs, Chaikin, p. 130; Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts, Jacobs, ed., pp. 6-7.
Expertin: Mag. Eva Königseder
Mag. Eva Königseder
+43-1-515 60-421
eva.koenigseder@dorotheum.at
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