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Saturn V lifting off, rebuilt from cream and black halftone dots on orange

Shown: 18 × 24 in · UnframedPreview is to relative scale

Plate Nº 009 · First edition

Apollo 11

Saturn V SA-506 · 16 July 1969

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The real thing

This one exists. Here are the facts.

Rocket
Saturn V SA-506
Site
Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center
Liftoff
16 July 1969, 13:32 UTC
Primary source
NASA photograph (public domain)
Printing
Made to order, one at a time

Why I made this series

These launches happened. People sat on top of that much fire and went. I wanted the posters to feel like the last second of the countdown: loud, simple and impossible to look away from.

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