IMAGE 300_399\305.Lbm,The mission emblems for the Apollo missions. (Apollo 7 and 9 were Earth orbital test missions.)
IMAGE 300_399\307.Lbm,The hub of Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center, the towering VAB; to the bottom left is the launch control centre. This 1969 picture shows a Saturn V/Apollo stack beginning its journey by crawler transporter to the launch pad.
IMAGE 700_799\745.Lbm,A complete Apollo stack emerges from the VAB and starts is 5-km journey to the launch pad. Note the size of the cars!
IMAGE 1300_99\343.Lbm,Full-size replicas of space hardware, such as this Apollo lunar module, dot the Visitors Center.
IMAGE 300_399\306.Lbm,The interior of the Apollo command module.
IMAGE 1400_99\439.Lbm,The burnt-out Apollo 1 spacecraft in which Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee died during training on January 27, 1967.
IMAGE 1400_99\440.Lbm,The first successful lift-off of the unmanned Apollo 4/Saturn V launch vehicle on November 9, 1967.
IMAGE 300_399\309.Lbm,Saturn V/Apollo operations: Lift-off and first stage separation.
IMAGE 300_399\310.Lbm,Saturn V/Apollo operations: First/second interstage unit separation.
IMAGE 300_399\312.Lbm,Saturn/Apollo operations: Apollo CSM separates and fires its thrusters to turn round; then it docks with the LM, which is inside the third-stage shroud.
IMAGE 300_399\313.Lbm,Saturn V/Apollo operations: Apollo CSM fires its thrusters to pull the LM away from the third stage. Apollo is now in its proper configuration for the translunar journey.
IMAGE 300_399\314.Lbm,Apollo Moon-landing operations: Nearing the Moon, the service module's engine fires as a retrobrake to slow down the spacecraft so that it can enter lunar orbit.
IMAGE 300_399\315.Lbm,Apollo Moon-landing operations: In lunar orbit, the Apollo LM separates from the CSM and drops down towards the lunar surface. It fires its descent engine as a brake to slow down for a soft landing.
IMAGE 300_399\316.Lbm,Apollo re-entry operations: Approaching the Earth at 40,000 km/h, the command module separates from the service module.
IMAGE 300_399\317.Lbm,Apollo re-entry operations: The command module manoeuvres by firing its thrusters so that it enters the atmosphere base first.
IMAGE 300_399\318.Lbm,Apollo re-entry operations: The command module slams into the atmosphere and is slowed down. The heat shield at the base of the is heated red hot by air friction, and melts and boils away.
IMAGE 700_799\787.Lbm,The heat shield of an Apollo command module melting and breaking up during re-entry, as pictured by a long-range camera.
IMAGE 300_399\319.Lbm,Apollo re-entry operations: As the command module plunges lower, parachutes open to slow it down further so that it can make a soft splashdown at sea.
IMAGE 300_399\332.Lbm,A technician at the Johnson Space Center, Houston, taking readings radioed back from the seismometers left behind on the Moon by the Apollo astronauts. They formed part of the ALSEP scientific stations.
