“Lighting Up the Sky”: Remembering Apollo 17’s Artificial Dawn, 50 Years On

OTD in 1972, the most recent visitors to another world began their multi-day trek to the Moon. Apollo 17 not only represented the end of an era, but the United States' first manned night launch.

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