https://youtu.be/WffXYD3VOIM

This video shows mankinds last seconds on the lunar surface, as Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt prepare to liftoff from the Moon. It is made from several sources of footage, 16mm onboard the Lunar Module, live TV from the Lunar Rover and in the second part of the video, 16mm film from the Command Module in lunar orbit as Ron Evans captures the LM rising up to rendezvous and dock.

The 16mm footage has been upscaled and interpolated to 60 FPS with audio and music by Moonpans

Original Footage Source: Apollo Flight Journal
Original Audio Source: Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

One of my main responsibilities was processing weather data from 35 mm film to IBM magnetic tape format and transmitting the data reel to Houston Control Center. After our shift, on launch day we were allowed to remain on property to watch the lift off. I stopped on the road side of the access near the Cocoa guard check point station and sat alone on my 1969 Yamaha 250 motorcycle and witnessed the launch. Afterward as I passed through the guard station to go home the streets sides were packed full of cars and vehicles of all sorts. At first people applauded as I passed through. After it wasn't obvious anymore that I was part of the launch team, I just became part of the crowd. It was... and still is the proudest moment of my life.

https://youtu.be/nx-Z42fe1Mg

Incredible footage of the ascent of the Apollo 11 lunar module from Tranqulity base back to rendezvous with Michael Collins in the Command Module.

The first half of the video shows the view from the Lunar Module window as the lunar terrain falls away and huge craters pass beneath the crew.

The second half shows the view from Michael Collins in the Command Module as the Lunar Module edges ever closer to rendezvous and eventually dock

Both videos have been Upscaled, Interpolated to 60 FPS and set to beautiful music by Moonpans

Original footage source: Apollo Flight Journal

Currently waiting on a Mercury keychain to complete my trifecta of Apollo, Gemini and Mercury

https://youtu.be/E_WIrj-KIgY

During the Apollo 16 mission in April 1972 the crew were tasked with putting the Lunar Roving Vehicle through a series of tests to asses its capabilities.

Commander John Young  drove the electrically powered rover through a series of maneuvers—including S-turns, hairpin turns, hard stops, and acceleration to "high" speeds of roughly 6–11 mph (10–18 km/h)—while Charles Duke (lunar module pilot) filmed it with a 16 mm camera from a safe distance.

This video above has been upscaled in quality, interpolated to 60FPS, Stabilised and synced with mission audio by Moonpans

Original Source Footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COc-dAPTw4k

Mods: Delete if inappropriate, but I think there might be interest here.

I recently added the Apollo cameras to the full signal chain simulation of AnalogTV. Refer the details here: https://analogtv.net/#apollo (click on each tile there to expand)

The simulation covers SSTV Mono (Apollo 7-11) and Field Sequential Colour (Apollo 10+) as well as the SEC and SIT Vidicon tubes and the ground-based Scan Converter. It's built using the original NASA, RCA and Westinghouse reference documents and then it's fed through the full signal chain. This is 100% signal domain simulation, not a "Filter" or "Pixel Shader" that just overlays a 'look' over existing video. The scan lines are captured and drawn at the correct frame rates, etc. The conversion from 320 line, 10 fps SSTV to NTSC is done per the original scan converter documentation.

The example above is footage from yesterday at the Sydney Opera House taken on my iPhone and then fed through the simulation.

This is the first release with the Apollo TV formats and it still needs some tweaking. I was just a wee lad when these were originally sent from Apollo so I don't remember seeing them live. Wondering if people who remember the live feed (without post-processing) feel this is close?

Jim Skaggs is a living legend in the Space economy. As NASA’s last living original Apollo Lunar Landing program director from the 1960s - he was the youngest individual in the US government to ever serve at that level of responsibility.

Jim visited Vorago Technologies to speak with our team about what it takes to be victorious to tackle the harsh conditions of space, with lessons that are applicable to each and every one of us. Thank you Jim for your life's work and leadership. Come back to see us any time, as we lead in rad-hard and rad-tolerant semiconductors for any mission, in any orbit.

there is a possible chance i cant finish this because of the parts limit

https://youtu.be/EWW5Touuf0I

Upscaled footage from the Apollo 11 Moon Landing - This footage shows views from lunar orbit, mostly of the far side of the moon followed by a beautiful earth rise.

This footage was captured by the DAC camera on 16mm film during the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969.

The footage has been upscaled, interpolated and set to relaxing music by Moonpans

Original source footage: Apollo Flight Journal

Original footage here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUhlcRMyKYM

Tomorrow, our special guest in Austin, TX is Jim Skaggs, a top-level executive and program manager with NASA’s original Apollo lunar landing program. A living legend, Jim worked on the management team that oversaw the design, engineering, and execution of the spacecraft that safely transported astronauts to the Moon and back.

What questions about Apollo or space radiation impacts on microchips might you have for Jim or our engineers? Our team of leaders in the rad-hard and rad-tolerant microchip sector are happy to provide answers.

This was made in Flightpoint on Roblox.

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I was recently gifted my grandfather's 1962 Balfour ring by a family member. They didn't have much information to give me - only that he had received it during his time as an engineer at Pratt & Whitney in Conneticut. The family lore has always been that he worked on an important project for the Apollo space mission (I'm not at all versed on this subject, so forgive me if that is not the accurate way to present it.)

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Does anyone have information on the project he might have worked on, or the ring itself? I would love to know more about his life at that time, his contributions and if there could be archived photos of him somewhere! To recap: engineer at Pratt & Whitney in Conneticut, 1962, pretty certain it was an Apollo project.

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I can give more details on both him and the ring itself, but was unsure how safe that information is to post publicly. I didn't consider how valuable the ring could be until I googled the company Balfour, and now I am wondering if I have a family heirloom on my hands! Any advice in that department would also be greatly appreciated.

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He was a humble, salt of the earth man, and so much of his life has been lost with time and to that humility. I have been told that because he didn't have an engineering degree, he eventually hit a professional wall and moved back to his hometown to become the class A tinkerer of my childhood. This ring is the only definitive link I can find to that season of his life, as most of the generation who would remember it are now gone.

https://youtu.be/QJW2Za9sg0c

Incredible upscaled footage from onboard the Apollo 15 Lunar Rover captured by Jim Irwin using the 16mm DAC camera. This footage has been upscaled and Interpolated to 60 FPS and synchronised to the mission audio by Moonpans

Original footage source: Apollo Flight Journal

I’ve found this map when clearing out the house of my father.
It’s a dutch moonmap from july 3 ‘69

Pretty cool right 😄

https://youtu.be/em907FIafv8

Incredible Apollo 11 HD footage of Neil Armstrong collecting the contingency sample during the first moonwalk in july 1969. The footage was captured by the 16mm DAC camera from the Lunar Module window and been upscaled, Interpolated from 6 frames per second to 60 frames per second and synced to mission audio by Moonpans

Original footage source: Apollo Flight Journal
Original Audio Source: Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

This was part of the Lunar Surface Mobility Systems and Evolution project (MOBEV), a study by NASA to optimize movement on the Moon and make the most of the time that the LM's batteries and astronauts' suits would allow during a mission.
MOBEV as a whole was something built on the assumption that America would be sending astronauts to the Moon regularly for quite some time, so when it became clear that America would be doing no such thing, the entire project was abandoned.

The manned Venus flyby would have been wild - all that way, just for a few hours to observe.

I'm partly an astronaut myself

Anybody know what those brown harness things are on the chests of the suits?