Launch of Saturn V Apollo 11 from KSC LC-39A, July 16th, 1969. Watch for the shockwave as the rocket punches through the clouds at 1m 15s.
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Apollo 7 launch from Cape Canaveral. Oct 11, 1968.
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Apollo Program 16mm film transfers, edited together into a half-hour compilation by AIRBOYD.TV.
Film of Apollo 17 liftoff, with actual sound of launch, by Mr. Dan Beaumont
Launch of Apollo 10, the dress rehearsal mission for an actual lunar landing.
Archival footage of press visit to see Apollo and Skylab 1 and 2 in the VAB, with pre-launch Apollo 17 on LC39A, Dec 1972.
Apollo 14, Alan Shepard walks on the moon: “Not bad for an old man.” Shepard was also the first US astronaut in space, aboard MR-3/Freedom 7.
Neil Armstrong reads the Apollo 11 plaque affixed to the LEM: Here Men From The Planet Earth First Set Foot Upon the Moon, July 1969 A.D. We Came in Peace For All Mankind.
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“One small step for a man.” Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, forty-two years ago today.
- High-tech detective work apparently has found the missing “a” in one of the most famous phrases ever spoken.However, Armstrong told biographer Hansen that he composed the phrase during the six hours and 40 minutes between his drama-tinged landing and the time he and Apollo 11 crewmate Buzz Aldrin emerged from their lander, Eagle, to walk on the moon.
“It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word to be there,” Armstrong said in the book. “On the other hand, I didn’t intentionally make an inane statement, and … certainly the “a” was intended, because that’s the only way the statement makes any sense.
“So I would hope that history would grant me leeway for dropping the syllable and understand that it was certainly intended, even if it wasn’t said — although it might actually have been.”
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