Orbiter Spaceport

A series of videos that try to reconstructed the TV coverage of Voyager 2 encounter with Uranus. During the encounter NASA produced a series of science updates, along with press conferences. This playlist  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blZmnLy_XDc&list=PLZ4LzWgVGYi1-pDVH1pFQWUi4nq_-Vkki   is an attempt to show all those separate events. First Encounter Day: VOYAGER 2 - Uranus Science Report I (1986/01/23) Second Encounter Day: VOYAGER 2 - Uranus Press Briefing (1986/01/24) VOYAGER 2 - Uranus Science Report II (1986/01/24) Third Encounter Day: VOYAGER 2 - Uranus 5:00 PM Update (1986/01/25) VOYAGER 2 - Uranus 8:00 PM Update (1986/01/25 ) Fourth Encounter Day: VOYAGER 2 - Uranus 5:00 PM Science Report (1986/01/26) VOYAGER 2 - Uranus Science Report III (1986/01/26) Fifth Encounter Day: VOYAGER 2 - Uranus Science Report IV (1986/01/27) On some cases the available footage is not complete, but still is enough to get an idea of how the f...

Apollo 8 launch highlights, from liftoff to orbit, from HD sources Launched on December 21, 1968, Apollo 8 was the first crewed spacecraft to orbit the Moon.  Some of the original footage was taken by engineering cameras at high frame rates and normally is shown in slow motion. Here it's presented in real speed, but taking advantage of 60 fps video for smother motion.  On the latter part of the ascent, images from Apollo 4 and 6 are used to illustrate stage separation, tower jettison and out the window views. These are also presented at approximate real speed.

Saturn I test flight videos, in real-time and with side-by-side rocket camera views The early Saturn I test flights (Saturn I SA-5 and Saturn I SA-6) are interesting visually because of the on-board camera footage, with good coverage of stage separation. SA-5 tested S-IV second stage ignition and SA-6 carried the first boilerplate Apollo spacecraft into low Earth orbit Since they where test flights, engineers needed images to record what was happening on the vehicle during flight. Most times these on-board cameras would run faster or slower than the standard 24fps film speed. Normally the sequences are shown with no compensation for that, but where I tried to show things in real time. I'm presenting these images in real time and side by side with the more common distant views. The original images come from multiple documentaries and film sources. Sound comes from a real Saturn I launch.

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.