Comments on: Follow Up: More High Quality Apollo-11 Footage

By: Joel The Movie Fan

Joel The Movie Fan — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:37:50 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:27:39 +0000

I’m not sure about higher resolution scans but there are a number of images of Apollo astronauts with the visor up on the moon:
http://whizzospace.com/face/face.htm

Jack Schmitt was the most often photographed:
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17schmitt.face.jpg

Buzz Aldrins face is visible in one of the most famous images from the moon but its not immediately obvious:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5875.jpg

By: neutron

neutron — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:37:55 +0000

…also visiting from BA. Great work on the videos! I also wish there was more of this stuff. What really pisses me off is that after you watch it on youtube, it offers you 100s of clip from the hoaxnutjobs…

By: RBH

RBH — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:54:56 +0000

Over from Bad Astronomy. Many thanks for posting this.

By: Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:50:32 +0000

It’s too bad NASA didn’t arrange to have the whole mission recorded with high quality color footage. It would had added a little bit of weight and expense to fly a full length of movie film and everything. Looking back it seems like it would be worth it given that this was a stupendous event in history that will remembered for perhaps centuries.

But then I guess there is the flip side which is that we’re lucky they documented it at all, even if it is stop motion film and low quality television. Plenty of historic events never got onto film. I don’t think Yuri Gagarin’s first flight into space was documented on film.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:26:52 +0000

Very cool. I was unaware that such footage existed before the previous post. Too bad there isn’t more.

By: drbuzz0

drbuzz0 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:29:12 +0000

update: I didn’t have the audio track for this initially on the video, but I updated it using the NASA-hosted version of this (which is lower quality). The audio may be off by a half second or so, but it should be pretty close to synchronized correctly.