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Scheduled for December, the sixth and last manned Apollo mission to land on the moon began the long process of gearing up last week as its spacecraft and Saturn rocket were positioned on the launching pad at Cape Kennedy. TIME Correspondent Donald Neff filed this report...
...persons looked on, the Apollo 17 spaceship and booster rolled out of the assembly building at the Kennedy Space Center. A gibbous moon hung high in the Florida sky while the rising sun splashed the white rocket with golden rays. It was a stunning tableau of man's inventiveness. Yet it was a sight not without irony...
This is the last moonship. After Apollo 17, America's manned voyages to the moon come to an end. Though there is speculation that Russia may begin moon landings this decade, no American is likely to return to the moon in this century. That realization cast a nostalgic sadness over the spectators, most of them space workers and their families...
...crew that will make the last flight watched the 363-ft. vehicle moving at less than a mile an hour toward its pad 3½ miles away. "This is going to bring to a close the Apollo program," said Flight Commander Gene Cernan. "I hope by the time we get back home from the moon, we can convey that this is just the beginning of man's movement into an infinity of time and space...
...those days was barely a dream. Debus has been in charge of every manned launch conducted by the U.S.; there has never been a failure. He recalls with a certain humor that an Army general told him in 1947 that no rocket could go faster than 700 m.p.h. Apollo goes 25,000 m.p.h...