A handout photograph provided by NASA shows 'Apollo 17' mission being launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, 07 December 1972. December 7th sees the 40th anniversary of NASA's final manned lunar landing mission in its Apollo program. While being the last mission to bring men to the Moon it on the other hand marked a premire as it was the first nighttime liftoff of a 'Saturn V' rocket.