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an image of a rocket taking off from the launch pad

Ralph Morse, LIFE photo, source Google/Life 2008 (Free). REMASTERED by Dan Beaumont. APOLLO 8 launch: Relive! this fantastic launch on ABC," EXCEPTIONAL HISTORICAL MOMENT " Dec. 21, 1968 VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn00BvWwke0 APOLLO 8 Launch, Walter Cronkite: "This building is shaking under us" CBS News, December 21, 1968 VIDEO: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVVTHJjcTHE Apollo 8 MISSION: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp_RDqPQ-qg

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an artist's rendering of the space shuttle being launched

At 9:32 am on July 16, 1969 the Saturn V carrying Apollo 11 lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Four days later, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong separated from the command module Columbia, leaving behind Michael Collins and headed down to land on the moon in the service modul - Saturn V Apollo 11 Liftoff

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a space shuttle taking off into the sky

Apollo-Saturn 201 (AS-201), the first Saturn IB launch vehicle developed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:12 a.m. on Feb. 26, 1966.

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the space shuttle is being prepared for launch

This is a view of the the first test flight of the Saturn V vehicle (SA-501) at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) launch complex 39A. The thrust chambers of the first stage's five engines extend into the 45-foot-square hole in the mobile launcher platform. Until liftoff, the flames impinged downward onto a flame deflector that diverted the blast lengthwise in the flame trench. Here, a flame deflector, coated with a black ceramic, is in place below the opening, while a yellow (uncoated) spare…

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an image of the inside of a space station with four rocket engines on it's side

Five massive F-1 engines powered each Saturn V rocket into its place in history. These massive engines were instrumental in allowing NASA to win the race to the Moon and are now poised to make a comeback—in a major way. A team of engineers working at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. are

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