Apollo 11 Anniversary Restored Video Footage

Forty years ago, Apollo 11 blasted off on its 280,000-mile journey, fulfilling President John F. Kennedy's 1961 call to reach the moon by the end of the decade.

To commemorate the anniversary, NASA released newly restored video footage of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

At 7:32 a.m. Mountain time on July 16, 1969, Apollo 11's Saturn V engines fired, and the crew of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins reached orbit 12 minutes later.

Four days later, with the planet watching from 240,000 miles away on television signals delayed by 1.3 seconds, Armstrong stepped out onto the lunar surface, famously saying, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

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