[APOLLO 11] THE LAUNCH OF APOLLO 11 AT LAUNCH COMPLEX 39. VINTAGE NASA "RED NUMBER" PHOTOGRAPH, 16 JULY 1969.

The Vintage NASA Photo Collection of Philip Kulpa

[APOLLO 11] 

THE LAUNCH OF APOLLO 11 AT LAUNCH COMPLEX 39. 16 JULY 1969.

Vintage NASA “Red Number” chromogenic color photograph, 10 by 8 inches, “A Kodak Paper” watermark, press caption printed in purple to verso. NASA image ID “NASA S-69-39529” printed in upper left margin in red; tape to verso.

The massive 363-feet tall Apollo 11 space vehicle, being launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, at Kennedy Space Center on the morning of 16 July 1969. The Saturn V was the largest production model of the Saturn family of rockets, and was designed under the direction of Wernher von Braun. To this day the Saturn V remains the only launch vehicle to carry humans beyond low Earth orbit.