The rocket shouldered Apollo 7 off the launchpad at 11:02:45 a.m. The booster’s eight engines, generating 1.6 million pounds of thrust, washed the launch pedestal in a brilliant splash of orange ...

NASA/Panorama assembled by R. Farwell for the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal The flag is probably gone. Buzz Aldrin saw it knocked over by the rocket blast as he and Neil Armstrong left the moon 39 ...