The process of getting Apollo 11 to the pad has taken years to ... a countdown demonstration test, and a full up fueling of the launch vehicle to try to ferret out any problems that need to ...

Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/We-Have-Liftoff.html Photographer David Burnett focused his camera on the many tourists who flocked to ...

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Personnel within the Launch Control Center watch the Apollo 11 liftoff. The LCC is located 3.5 miles from the launch pad. The Saturn V rocket climbs into orbit.

A NASA flight readiness team took two weeks to analyze all the mission’s data before formally giving Apollo 11 clearance for its upcoming July 16, 1969 launch. But most of all, Apollo 10’s ...

lift-off on Apollo 11… Tower cleared… She's lifting beautifully into the sky, a typically beautiful Saturn V launch. 16 July 1969. Apollo 11 took-off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida ...