Yes, we now know it happened, and it was of course totally successful.
But forty years later I find the lift-off as exciting, moving and, yes, tense as the child of six years old did.
What about you?
No one knew for sure that all would go well - but they believed that it would. I think that belief counted for a lot, and still does.
This slow motion coverage of the lift off, featuring the various pad systems as they automatically disconnect from the Saturn V just as it starts to move, is really fascinating.
Stay with it and towards the end of the film there are a great few seconds of the Saturn V stack disappearing into the blue sky...en route to the Moon...at last!
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