Launch and Translunar Injection: On launch day at Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Fla., the astronauts enter the spacecraft. After launch and Saturn V first-stage burnout and jettison, the S-II second stage ignites. The crew checks spacecraft systems in Earth orbit before the S-IVB third stage ignites the second time to send Apollo 11 to the Moon.
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Launch and Translunar Injection: On launch day at Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Fla., the astronauts enter the spacecraft. After launch and Saturn V first-stage burnout and jettison, the S-II second stage ignites. The crew checks spacecraft systems in Earth orbit before the S-IVB third stage ignites the second time to send Apollo 11 to the Moon.