# Apollo 11 Launch2

- By: NASA; restored by Michel Vuijlsteke
- Date: Taken on 16 July 1969
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: https://images.nasa.gov/details/S69-39963 http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/LARGE/GPN-2000-000629.jpg on the Wayback Machine at the Wayback Machine http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-000629.html on the Wayback Machine at the Wayback…
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_11_Launch2.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/7/7d/Apollo_11_Launch2.jpg/1920px-Apollo_11_Launch2.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

At 9:32 a.m. EDT, the swing arms move away and a plume of flame signals the liftoff of the Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle and astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A.