Orbiter Spaceport

The Apollo 9 mission tested the Apollo CMS and LEM in Earth orbit. It included a EVA where Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart was using an handheld camera at the LM forward hatch and Command Module Pilot David Scott had a camera fixed to the CM side hatch. Here I took footage from both cameras and synchronized it with real time audio. Image processing: Frame rate corrected and motion interpolated from 6fps to 24fps.  Motion stabilization performed on the handheld camera footage. Fish-eye lens corrected on the fixed camera The end result is a cleared view of the EVA highlights. I created one version with footage from both cameras side-by-side, and another with a normal edit.

Roy has sent me a nice email sharing his latest animation for Youtube. It features some research into what would an Earth's ring system look like. The surface views in the video look good and everything seem to be well researched. Regarding simulation, imagine a space station located on the rings... perhaps to harvest some water! It would be a nice activity to try to simulate a space shuttle flight from the ISS to the ring station and back. Perhaps I'll do it for Orbiter some day!