As a kid, very few things fascinated me more than space flight (I clearly remember yapping my dad’s ears off about the different stages of the Saturn V launch vehicle’s flight cycle.) To this date, that fascination has stayed with me, and possibly only grown greater as I’ve started to grasp the true extent of the space programmes. Maybe young me would have loved it, but videos like this one by Spacecraft Films from the launch umbilical tower of the Apollo 11 flight from 5 seconds before liftoff at 500 frames per seconds leave me in absolute awe: