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Offline Peter B

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ALOTS image of Apollo 11 during staging
« on: September 04, 2025, 05:52:38 PM »
Good morning everyone

On her Vintage Space channel, Amy Shira Teitel has done a video short on an image of Apollo 11 taken from an ALOTS aircraft, showing Apollo 11 a few seconds after dropping the S-IC.

I've found a good copy of the image on Wikimedia Commons, and confirmed its ID is S69-39958. But I was wondering if there were any higher resolution images available? I can't find anything on AFJ, ALSJ or Apolloarchive, but I accept that could be my research skills.

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Offline Jason Thompson

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Re: ALOTS image of Apollo 11 during staging
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2025, 04:25:07 AM »
Given the combination of size, altitude, distance, speed etc. I'd be surprised if there are any higher resolution images of that event. It's certainly the best image of a Saturn V staging that I've ever seen that wasn't captured by film on the rocket itself.
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