Forty three years ago, and forty two years before the Space Shuttle landed for the last time, three men would travel to the moon, set foot there, take a few photos, and come back. To get there, they used the only vehicle that’s ever brought humans past low earth orbit, the world-beating Saturn V rocket. In tribute, I made this video with music courtesy of Burning Star Core using amazing lift-off footage captured from the umbilical tower of the Saturn V launch pad by a 16mm camera that was running at a still whopping – but normal-for-NASA – 500 frames per second.

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