APOLLO 11 FIRING ROOM #1
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Photo Number: KSC-69P-0325
Release Date: 14-May-1969
Keywords: FIRING ROOM #1,APOLLO 11,LCC
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Description:
Engineers within the Launch Control Center's Firing Room #1 monitor an overall test of the Apollo 11 space vehicle. The 363 foot high space vehicle is scheduled to roll out of the Vehicle Assembly Building's High Bay 3 to Launch Pad A no earlier than May 31, 1969. Apollo 11, which will be piloted by astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., will be the first of several manned lunar landing planned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Armstrong and Aldrin will descend in a lunar module spacecraft to the moon's surfaces while Collins orbits overhead in a command module.
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