The Apollo Missions Gallery

US-SPACE-MOON-APOLLO XI

A 70mm Airborne Lightweight Optical Tracking System (ALOTS) camera, mounted in a pod on a cargo door of a US Air Force EC-135N aircraft, photographed this event 16 July 1969 in the early moments of the Apollo 11 launch. The mated Apollo spacecraft and Saturn V second (S-11) 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. The aircraft's pod is 20 feet long and 5 feet in diameter. The crew of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission were astronauts Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. AFP PHOTO NASA / AFP PHOTO / NASA / HO

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Retro-Siecle-Apollo XI

(FILES) Photo taken 20 july 1969 of a close-up view of an astronaut's foot and foot print in the lunar soil, potographed with a 70mm lunar surface camera during the Aopllo 11 lunar surface activity. Astronaut Michael Collins, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Servive Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit while astronauts Neil A. Armtrong, commander, and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, descended in the Lunar Module (LM) to explore the Moon. / AFP PHOTO / NASA

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Space-Us-History of Manned Space Flight-Apollo

The crew men of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission leave the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Manned Spacecraft Operations Building (MSOB) during the pre-launch countdown in this 16 July 1969 file photo. Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Buzz Aldrin lunar module pilot, ride the special transport van over to Launch Complex 39A where their spacecraft awaited them. Lift-off was at 9:32 a.m. (EDT), 16 July1969. AFP PHOTO / NASA / AFP PHOTO / NASA / HO

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