Apollo 11 Launch (1969)

At 9:32 a.m. EDT, the swing arms move away and a plume of flame signals the liftoff of the Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle and astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A.

Photograph taken on 16 July 1969.

Credit: NASA, [KSC] Image #69PC-0421 [source].


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