The launch of Apollo 11

At 9:32 am Apollo 11 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center, bound for the Moon. The weather and the sky over the launch pad that morning.

The weather that day

• 27.0 to 28.2 °C, rain, 2.2 mm of rain.
• A southeast wind, 15 km/h on average, and pressure from 1017 to 1020 hPa.

The sky

• Sunrise at 06:35, sunset at 20:22.
• The moon: new moon, 4% lit.

Its name

Ombrence: Rain, 2.2 mm of it, and a steady southeast wind, under no moon at all.

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