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Liftoff of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission
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S69-39957 (16 July 1969) --- A 70mm Airborne Lightweight Optical Tracking System (ALOTS) took this picture. ALOTS tracking camera mounted on an Air Force EC-135 aircraft flying at about 40,000 feet altitude photographed this event in the early moments of the Apollo 11 launch. The 7.6 million-pound thrust Saturn V (S-1C) first stage boosts the space vehicle to an altitude of 36.3 nautical miles at 50.6 nautical miles downrange in 2 minutes 40.8 seconds.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineLiftoff of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. NASA/JSC, 1969-07-16. Public domain. ID: S69-39957.
