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On July 15, 2009, Life.com released a photo gallery of previously unpublished photos of the astronauts taken by Life photographer Ralph Morse prior to the Apollo 11 launch. [265] From July 16 to 24, 2009, NASA streamed the original mission audio on its website in real time 40 years to the minute after the events occurred. [ 266 ]
The combined TV/DAC camera/Photography/audio video hosted on YouTube as "Apollo 11 Moonwalk Part 1 of 4" [11] includes the Flight Director's audio loop as well as the CapCom-Crew audio. At 8 minutes 53 seconds into the video (109:30:53 MET) Armstrong states "I'll step out and take some of my first pictures here.", at 9:03 video/109:31:05 MET ...
The service module broke away before the capsule would have been destroyed, and so it made a rough but survivable landing far off course in the Ural Mountains. Struck twice by lightning during launch 14 November 1969: Apollo 12: Two lightning strikes during launch.
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.
The American flag heralds the flight of Apollo 11, the world's first Lunar landing mission. 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.
See TIME's photos of Americans who watched Apollo 11 lift off for the moon on July 16, 1969, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Lunar Module Eagle (LM-5) is the spacecraft that served as the crewed lunar lander of Apollo 11, which was the first mission to land humans on the Moon. It was named after the bald eagle , which was featured prominently on the mission insignia .
Apollo 8, originally scheduled for 1969, was pushed forward because of concerns the Russians were accelerating their own plans for a trip around the moon by the end of 1968.