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From doughnuts to liftoff, Apollo 11 launch was blast

It was the start of a big day: the launch of a Saturn V rocket, lifting man from the face of the Earth to the face of the moon. King, the chief of public information at Kennedy Space Center, would ...
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Apollo 11 Launch: Photographed

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/We-Have-Liftoff.html Photographer David Burnett ...
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In July 1969, the world was glued to its TV as Apollo 11 rocketed to the moon

It was July 1969, and humankind’s much-anticipated trip to the surface of the moon was days away. The public, and the newspapers, couldn’t get enough of the three “moon men” of Apollo 11: Neil ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How This Legendary Artist’s Obsession With Flight Led Him to Create Stunning Imagery Featuring Spacecraft, Birds and Insects

An invited guest at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in July 1969, artist Robert Rauschenberg watched Apollo 11 lift off on its unprecedented journey to the moon. For NASA’s art program, he and a group of ...
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Notable quotes from the Apollo 11 moon landing

"I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth." — President John F. Kennedy in special ...