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Personnel within the Launch Control Center watch the Apollo 11 liftoff. The LCC is located 3.5 miles from the launch pad.

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A boy sells souvenir newspapers on the day of the moon launch. David Burnett/Contact Press Images After camping out for days, tourists looked up into the sky as Apollo 11 rocketed into space.

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