Alabama Historic NASA Photos
Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA has organized millions of images it has collected from space and on the ground and posted them in an amazing searchable website. There are more than 800 images with an Alabama connection!
1969: Birmingham Alabama, almost vertical, from space.
Dr. von Braun is carried aloft on the shoulders of Huntsville city officials during the Apollo 11 celebration in Huntsville, Alabama, on July 24, 1969
AS11-40-5875 (20 July 1969) — Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, poses for a photograph beside the deployed United States flag during an Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the lunar surface.
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