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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. The Saturn V rocket climbs into orbit.

Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/We-Have-Liftoff.html Photographer David Burnett focused his camera on the many tourists who flocked to ...

July 14, 1969 (UPI) -Launch crews ... minutes after the blastoff of Apollo 11 today, Mrs. Joan Aldrin broke a long silence as she rested her head on her 13-year-old son's shoulder.

That July, the Apollo 11 mission would attempt just that. I was 22, a year out of Colorado College and working as a photographer at Time magazine's Miami bureau. In the days before the launch ...

","credit":"Consolidated News Pictures\u0026mdash ... Michael Collins revisited the exact site of the historic 1969 launch to the moon Tuesday precisely 50 years after his famous mission alongside ...