For a close-up view from a camera on the gantry, check out this video [3:31].

For a transcript and audio clips of Jack King’s narration of the launch and subsequent parts of the mission, see the Apollo 11 Flight Journal.

This blog post is part of the @ApolloPlus40 series, which accompanies the ApolloPlus40 Twitter project by Nature News, a re-telling of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, 40 years later.

For a close-up view from a camera on the gantry, check out this video [3:31].

For a transcript and audio clips of Jack King’s narration of the launch and subsequent parts of the mission, see the Apollo 11 Flight Journal.

This blog post is part of the @ApolloPlus40 series, which accompanies the ApolloPlus40 Twitter project by Nature News, a re-telling of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, 40 years later.