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[Apollo 11] The historic liftoff of the first manned lunar landing mission. NASA, 16 July 1969. Printed 1969. Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper [NASA image 107-KSC-69PC-447]. 20.3×25.4 cm (8×10 in), with NASA caption dated “July 16, 1969” and numbered “107-KSC-69PC-447” as well as “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso (NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida). A classic photograph of Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket lifting off to the Moon from Cape Kennedy. [NASA caption] KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. The Apollo/Saturn V space vehicle carrying Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., lifted off at 9:32 a.. EDT July 16, 1969, on the Nation's first manned lunar landing mission. The 363-foot-high vehicle generated a thrust of seven and one-half million pounds during liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A. Four days after launch, astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin are to descend in a lunar module to the Moon's surface while Collins pilots the command module in lunar orbit. The two astronauts are to spend 22 hours on the Moon's surface, including two and one-half hours outside the lunar module. They will gather sumples of lunar surface material and will deploy scientific experiments which will transit data about the lunar environment to Earth after the space pilots leave. They will rejoin Collins in the command module spacecraft for the return trip to Earth. Splashdown is to take place in the mid-Pacific at 195 hours, 15 minates ground elapsed time. The National Aeronautice and Space Administration directs the Apollo program. “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 [flight] 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.” Walter Cronkite, legendary American television commentator (Hamish Lindsey, Tracking Apollo to the Moon, Springer, London, 2001, p. 214). Condition Minor irregularities and some haze to surface only visible at angle, offset to verso, otherwise excellent condition. Preview In Lyngby Auction Space, 15 November 2023 Category Photos ▸ Vintage photographs Selling 15 November at 6:31 pm Estimate 6,000–8,000 DKK
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