Dr. Wernher von Braun, director of the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, relaxes after the successful launch of Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin Jr. today. Their historic lunar landing mission began at 9:32 a.m. EDT, July 16, 1969, when an Apollo/Saturn V space vehicle lifted off from the spaceport's Launch Complex 39A. 1969-07-16 KSC-69P-0632 NASA Kennedy Space Center NASA-KSC http://images.ksc.nasa.gov/ http://images.ksc.nasa.gov/photos/1969/thumb/KSC-69P-0632.gif GIF 79 100 11947 http://images.ksc.nasa.gov/photos/1969/low/KSC-69P-0632.gif GIF 190 240 65287 http://images.ksc.nasa.gov/photos/1969/medium/KSC-69P-0632.jpg JPEG 609 768 70696 http://images.ksc.nasa.gov/photos/1969/high/KSC-69P-0632.jpg JPEG 2074 2617 697516