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Apollo 11 Saturn V Rollout

Carrying the Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle and mobile launcher, the transporter inches its way out of the Vehicle Assembly Building to the hardstand atop Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Rollout began at 12:30 p.m. EDT on May 20, 1969 and was completed at 7:46 p.m. after positioning the 12.5-million-pound load on support pedestals. The transporter carried the vehicle along the 3.5-mile crawlerway at an average speed of less than 1 mile per hour. The 363-foot-high space vehicle launched Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. on the Nation's first manned lunar landing mission on July 16, 1969.

 

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Image Number: KSC-69PC-249

Date: May 20, 1969

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