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The Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle lifts off with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. at 9:32 am. EDT July 16, 1969, from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A. An estimated one million spectators watched the launch of Apollo 11 from the highways and beaches in the vicinity of the launch site.
English: Video of the Apollo 11 launch, taken from the base of the Launch Umbilical Tower on the Mobile Launcher. Camera E-8 captured this footage on 16 mm film at 500 frames per second. This footage takes place within approximately 30 seconds of real time.
The Apollo 17 project, which Feist began in 2009 as a part-time hobby and launched six years later [3] was the first real-time site published. It includes raw audio from the onboard voice and air-to-ground communication channels in Mission Control that had been released by NASA, and film that had been collected by archivist Stephen Slater in the UK. [1]
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 Apollo 11 missing tapes were those that were recorded from Apollo 11's slow-scan television (SSTV) telecast in its raw format on telemetry data tape at the time of the first Moon landing in 1969 and subsequently lost. The data tapes were used to record all transmitted data (video as well as telemetry) for backup.
Lunar Orbiter 5 image from 1967, cropped to show the vicinity of the landing site of Apollo 11, used in mission planning. The image is centered precisely on a small crater called West crater (190 m in diameter), and the lunar module Eagle touched down about 550 m west of West Crater. The area shown is approximately 25 km × 25 km across.
The agency said one North Korean soldier, facing the threat of being captured by Ukrainian forces, shouted “General Kim Jong Un” and tried to detonate a hand grenade before he was shot and killed.
The presence of the flag with the Apollo 11/Saturn V at the very moment the vessel reaches Max Q makes it a one-of-a-kind snapshot of a defining moment in American history, never to be seen again and impossible to duplicate. Proposed caption The American flag heralds the flight of Apollo 11, the world's first Lunar landing mission.