PRELAUNCH - APOLLO 17

S72-48730 (28 Aug. 1972) --- A ground-level view of the huge Apollo 17 (Spacecraft 114/Lunar Module 12/Saturn 512) space vehicle leaving the Vehicle Assembly Building on its way to Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center. The Saturn V stack and its mobile launch tower are atop a mammoth crawler-transporter. The prime crew for the Apollo 17 lunar landing mission will be astronauts Eugene A. Cernan, commander; Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot; and scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot.