A fish-eye lens view of the launch of the huge, 363-feet-tall Apollo 11 (Spacecraft 107/Lunar Module 5/Saturn 506) space vehicle from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), at 9:32 a.m. (EDT), July 16, 1969. Aboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft were astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot. Apollo 11 is the United States' first lunar landing mission. This photograph of the liftoff was taken by a camera mounted on the mobile launch tower.
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Kennedy Space Center
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NASA
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A fish-eye lens view of the launch of the huge, 363-feet-tall Apollo 11 (Spacecraft 107/Lunar Module 5/Saturn 506) space vehicle from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), at 9:32 a.m. (EDT), July 16, 1969. Aboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft were astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot. Apollo 11 is the United States' first lunar landing mission. This photograph of the liftoff was taken by a camera mounted on the mobile launch tower.