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NASA / Unidentified Photographer

The crew preparing for launch

Apollo 14, January 31, 1971

Two vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA KSC captions on verso

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NASA / Unidentified Photographer

The white room atop the 320-foot mobile launcher of the Saturn V rocket on the night before launch

Apollo 14, January 31, 1971

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA KSC caption on the verso

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NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Launch Control Center watching the liftoff of the Saturn V rocket to the Moon

Apollo 14, January 31, 1971, 000:00:21 GET

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA KSC caption on the verso

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NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Liftoff to the Moon

Apollo 14, January 31, 1971, 000:00:03 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), NASA MSC caption and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA S-71-18399” in red in top margin

466 e
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Automatic sequence of the Saturn V space vehicle’s ignition

Apollo 14, January 31, 1971, 000:00:05 GET

Three vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA KSC captions on the versos
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

466 a
Jacobs, p. 2 ( second photograph).

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466 a
Donald Slayton, Director of Flight Crew Operations, talks with Alan Shepard during suiting up activities of the crew prior to launch (first photograph).

The three Apollo 14 astronauts arrive at the White Room atop Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, during the Apollo 14 prelaunch countdown; standing in the center foreground is astronaut Thomas Stafford, Chief of the MSC Astronaut Office (second photograph).

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This wonderful view was taken from the Mobile Service Structure (right) during its removal from the Apollo 14 Saturn V and its mobile launcher on the night before launch day. The White Room through which the Apollo astronauts enter their spacecraft atop the Saturn V rocket is clearly visible on the 320-foot-level of the mobile launcher with a service technician on top of it.

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The engineers and technicians monitored the final countdown of the Saturn V space vehicle from the LCC (Launch Control Center) which is located 3.5 miles from the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center.586

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The huge, 363-feet tall Apollo 14 (Spacecraft 110/Lunar Module 8/Saturn 509) space vehicle is launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida at 4:03:02 p.m. (EST), Jan. 31, 1971, on a lunar landing mission. This view is framed by moss-covered dead trees in the dark foreground.

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A remote camera located at the 360-foot level of the mobile launcher recorded these impressive views of the giant Saturn V rocket leaving Pad 39A.