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NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Ignition

Apollo 11, July 16, 1969, 000:00:01 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA S-69-39525” in red in top margin

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NASA / Unidentified Photographer

The Saturn V rocket heading to the Moon

Apollo 11, July 16, 1969, 000:00:20 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 27.8 x 21.5cm (11 x 8¹⁄₂in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso
27.8 x 21.5cm (11 x 8¹⁄₂in)

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The huge, 363-feet tall Apollo 11 (Spacecraft 107/Lunar Module 5/Saturn 506) space vehicle was launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), at 9:32 a.m. (EDT), July 16, 1969.

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The legendary American television commentator Walter Cronkite described his feelings of the moment, “It was so much different from any other flight – it was something that had to grip you. You knew darned good and well that this was real history in the making. The thing that made this one particularly gripping was that sense of history, that if this was successful this was a date that was going to be in all the history books for time evermore – everything else that happened in our time is going to be an asterisk. I think we sensed that at the time – that this was it” (Hamish Lindsey, Tracking Apollo to the Moon, Springer, London, 2001, p. 214).