NASA Photo ID: S69-39961 File Name: 10075237.jpg
Film Type: 4x5 Date Taken: 07/16/69
Title: Liftoff of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission
Description:
Closeup view as the 363 ft tall Apollo 11 space vehicle is launched from
Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, at 9:37 a.m., July 16,
1969. Apollo 11 is the United Sates first lunar landing mission (39959);
Fish-eye lens view of the smoke and fire in the wake of the launch of the
Apollo 11 spacecraft. This photograph of the liftoff was taken by a camera
mounted on the mobile launch tower (39960); Fisheye lens view of the
Apollo 11 spacecraft atop its Saturn V launch vehicle as it launch from
Pad A, Launch Complex 39 (39961); Aerial view of the launch of the Apollo
11 spacecraft. This view of the liftoff was taken by a camera mounted on
the mobile launch tower (39962); Fish-eye lens view of the launch of the
Apollo 11 spacecraft. This photograph was taken by a camera mounted on the
mobile launch tower (39963).
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