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Liftoff of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission
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S69-39958 (16 July 1969) --- A 70mm Airborne Lightweight Optical Tracking System (ALOTS) camera, mounted in a pod on a cargo door of a U.S. Air Force EC-135N aircraft, photographed this event in the early moments of the Apollo 11 launch. The mated Apollo spacecraft and Saturn V second (S-II) and third (S-IVB) stages pull away from the expended first (S-1C) stage. Separation occurred at an altitude of about 38 miles, some 55 miles downrange from Cape Kennedy.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineLiftoff of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. NASA/JSC, 1969-07-16. Public domain. ID: S69-39958.
