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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Apollo XII Crew

Members of the crew of the US space program "Apollo VII ", from L to R : Donn F. Eisele, Walter Schirra and Walter Cunningham, pose in front of the Apollo cabin after a workout, a Cape Kennedy 18 September 1968
Les membres de l'equipage du programme spatial americain "Apollo VII", de G a D: Donn F. Eisele, Walter Schirra et Walter Cunningham, posent devant la cabine Apollo a l'issue d'un entrainement, a Cap Kennedy le 18 septembre 1968. / AFP PHOTO

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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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