At 9:32 a.m. EDT, the swing arms move away and a plume of flame signals the liftoff of the Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle and astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A.
NASA. <i>(SVG conversion by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:CommonsCDI&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="User:CommonsCDI (page does not exist)">CommonsCDI</a>)</i>.
1969-07-16
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