Apollo 11 Launch Spectators

These three were among the thousands of persons who camped on beaches and roads adjacent to the Kennedy Space Center to watch the Apollo launch. An estimated one million persons visited the Spaceport area to see the historic flight, this nation's first attempt to land Americans on the lunar surface.

 

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Credit: NASA

Image Number: 69P-0619

Date: July 16, 1969

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