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1966 Press Photo Atlas-Agena rocket with Lunar Orbiter blast from Cape Kennedy

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Blasting away at Cape Kennedy, Florida, Wednesday is the Atlas-Agena rocket with a Lunar Orbiter spacecraft headed for the moon. After a 90-hour, 235,466-mile trip, the craft will enter a moon orbit to take pictures of the hidden backside, the Surveyor I on the moon surface and nine potential astronaut landing sites.

Photo is dated 1966.

Photo measures 10.25 x 7.25 inches.
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