46 years ago, on July 16, 1969. Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins launched to the Moon on top of the mightiest spaceship ever built. These amazing photos from NASA's vaults show how they built and launched that spaceship. I look at them in awe and admiration. It was the most important trip in the history of humankind, a trip that many deemed impossible some people still do think it's impossible an odyssey that started many years before andchanged our perception of the world itself. Only eight years before this day on on May 25, 1961 Kennedy announced a plan to go to the Moon. it was a plan that they didn't have. In fact, the mere idea was one that almost everyone thought was impossible to do in that time frame. Just think about this, The United States only launched its first man to space on May 5, 1961 and he didn't even orbited the Earth. That happened after Kennedy's announcement, on February 20, 1962. And yet, they did it. The United States was fighting against all odds to beat the Soviet Union on the race to the Moon. The effort turned the country into a technological powerhouse like no other in the world, catapulting it decades ahead of everyone else, with more engineering students getting out of college than ever with the sole intention of participating in the greatest, most amazing project ever imagined.


Source: http://sploid.gizmodo.com/amazing-photos-from-nasas-vaults-show-how-they-assemble-1605378889

http://news.discovery.com/space/history-of-space/moon-landing-rarely-seen-photos-inside-apollo-11-140720.htm

http://news.discovery.com/space/history-of-space/apollo-11-photographs-moon-pictures-130722.htm

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January 4, 1969. Lunar Module (LM) 5 ascent stage in Final Assembly Area on overhead hoist being moved to dolly for roll-out inspection.

February 21,1969. Workers prepare the S-IC first stage in the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building.

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February 21,1969. A crane lifts the S-IC first stage in preparation for stacking on a mobile launcher within the VAB's High Bay 1.

March 6,1969. Arrival of Apollo 11 Instrument Unit (IU) at KSC aboard Super Guppy.

March 21,1969. The S-II second stage is moved into position for mating with the S-IC first stage inside the KSC vehicle assembly building (VAB).

"That's one small step for man, A giant leap for mankind" - Neil Armstrong (1969)

March 21,1969. The S-IVB third stage is hoisted for mating to the second stage.

March 21,1969. The S-IVB third stage is moved into position for mating.

March 21,1969. Workers prepare the S-IVB for mating of the Instrument Unit, which houses guidance, control and other Saturn V systems.

March 21, 1969. The instrument unit for the Saturn V launch vehicle, AS-506, used to propel the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission, is lowered into place atop the third (S-IVB) stage in the vehicle assembly building at the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC).

The final assembly stacking of Command Module at the North American plant, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

April 1, 1969. Apollo 11 command service module (CSM 107) is moved from Chamber L to the work stand in preparation for the first manned lunar landing. (Also shown in the background, is Apollo 12 CSM 108.)

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April 4,1969. Lunar Module 5 (LM-5) move from landing gear fixture and mate to Saturn launch adapter.

4:April, 1969. Interior view of the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Manned Spacecraft Operations Building showing Lunar Module (LM) 5 being moved from work stand for mating with its Spacecraft lunar Module Adapter (SLA).

The command and service modules for Apollo 11 are installed in the altitude chamber of the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building at NASA's Spaceport.

April 11, 1969. The command and service modules for Apollo 11 (Apollo Spacecraft 107) move from 134 work stand and final mate to Saturn launch adapter inside the Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) Manned Spacecraft Operations Building.

May 1, 1969. The Apollo 11 spacecraft assembly is hoisted for mating to the launch vehicle.

May 1,1969. Mating of the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the Saturn V launch vehicle

May 20, 1969. Side view and stack of Apollo 11 in VAB on the morning of rollout.

May 20, 1969. Carrying the 363-foot-high Apollo 11 Saturn V rocket and mobile launcher, the crawler inches out of the Vehicle Assembly Building on the journey to Launch Pad 39A.

May 20, 1969. Saturn V SA-506, thespace vehicle for the first lunar landing mission, is rolled out of the Vehicle Assembly Building and down the 3.5 mile crawlerway to Launch Complex 39-A.

May 20, 1969. The Saturn V moves at one mile per hour down the crawlerway toward pad 39A.

June 10, 1969. The Apollo 11 crew walk past the base of the massive Saturn V first stage during a walk-through emergency egress test.

July 1, 1969. Dr. Wernher von Braunin Front of the Apollo 11 Spacecraft.

July 1, 1969. SA-506 and Mobile Service Structure on launch pad 39A

July 1, 1969. The Mobile Service Structure (MSS) approaches the Saturn V on pad 39A.

July 2, 1969. SA-506 (Apollo 11) vents liquid oxygen during a Countdown Demonstration Test.

July 7, 1969. View of Apollo 11 Saturn V from the top of the launch tower.