# @gettyimages on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz-rtH3Hgum
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16447662-gettyimages-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/f32c88aa6e.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-07-16T13:32:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

## Caption

There she goes: spectators including former US First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, former President Lyndon B. Johnson and Vice President, Spiro T. Agnew, watch as the Saturn V rocket launches carrying the Apollo 11 spacecraft, the lift off taking place at 09:32 EDT on 16 July, 1969.⁠
The historic mission was to set the first men on the moon just a few days later.⁠
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⁠📷: Otis Imboden/National Geographic/Getty Images
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