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English: The Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle lifted off with Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. at 9:32 a.m. EDT July 16, 1969, from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A.
Apollo 11 Saturn V United States technological and industrial history Max Q Creator NASA. Support as nominator Bullzeye (Complaint Dept./Brilliant Acts) 06:16, 29 July 2007 (UTC) Support with reservations. First, this is a pretty image, because of the flag, with patriotic appeal to Americans (and I feel out of politeness most non-Americans can ...
Apollo 11 was a spaceflight ... black and white images of the first lunar EVA were received and ... There was a concern this would prevent firing the engine ...
A half-century ago, in the middle of a mean year of war, famine, violence in the streets and the widening of the generation gap, men from planet Earth stepped onto another world for the first time.
Firing Room 1 configured for Space Shuttle launches Firing Room 2 as it appeared in the Apollo era A Saturn I-B control panel from an Apollo-era Firing Room. Launch operations are supervised and controlled from several control rooms known as firing rooms. The controllers are in control of pre-launch checks, the booster and spacecraft.
Despite its historic nature, the primary purpose of Apollo 11 was simple; to perform a manned lunar landing and return [3].All other aspects were considered as bonuses, including the Extravehicular Activity/EVA on the surface (AKA Moonwalk) which was kept to the barest minimum of placing a few experimental devices, grabbing a few rocks, and taking a few photographs.
In 1969, that's exactly what speechwriter William Safire imagined when waiting for the Apollo 11 to land on the moon. Safire penned a memo for President Nixon's Chief of Staff, H. R. Haldeman , in ...
The exception is that of Apollo 11, which matches Buzz Aldrin's account of the flag being blown over by the lander's rocket exhaust on leaving the Moon. [ 63 ] Higher resolution image of the Apollo 17 landing site showing the Challenger lunar module descent stage as photographed by the LRO