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Apollo 11: launch control center

author: Nasa/Novapix

reference: e-apo11-10045

Image Size 300 DPI: 18 * 13 cm

Engineers within the Launch Control Center's Firing Room 1 monitor an overall test of the Apollo 11 space vehicle. The 363 foot high space vehicle is scheduled to roll out of the Vehicle Assembly Building's High Bay 3 to Launch Pad A no earlier than May 31, 1969. Apollo 11, which will be piloted by astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., will be the first of several manned lunar landing planned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Armstrong and Aldrin will descend in a lunar module spacecraft to the moon's surfaces while Collins orbits overhead in a command module.  

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1969 - APOLLO - APOLLO 11 - BLACK AND WHITE - CAPE CANAVERAL - CONTROL ROOM - KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - MANNED SPACEFLIGHT - USA -