Watching the Launch of Apollo 11, to the Moon, Cape Canaveral, Joel Meyerowitz, 1969

Watching the Launch of Apollo 11, to the Moon, Cape Canaveral, Joel Meyerowitz, 1969

gelatin silver print, h 281mm × w 354mm More details
© Joel Meyerowitz

Sitting in a camping chair on the roof of your Plymouth Satellite to get an even better view. Meyerowitz recorded this young couple at one of the most memorable moments of the 20th century. Four American astronauts left earth in a spacecraft headed to the moon. The couple drove to Cape Canaveral to see the rocket launch from close by.