Apollo 16 lunar rover 'Grand Prix' in HD

Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charlie Duke take the lunar rover for a spin on the surface of the moon in this film footage of what became known as the "lunar rover Grand Prix". This footage was shot on 16mm film and is silent.
Want more? Check out the NasaHD channel for more High Definition footage!

[JPofCT]

It produces 1 horsepower.
It has no doors, no roof, and no body.
It's seats are pretty much lawn chairs.
It's top speed is 11 mph.
And there is no vehicle I would love to drive more.

[YellowKazooie]

That astronaut is really lucky. It bust be awesome to drive on the moon. I'm jelly

[nerad]

That must have been a trip. at one point in the middle of friving that I would just be thinking inside my head...holy fucking shit....I'm on the moon....like actually on it

[ryanthomas]

Those Hasselblad movie cameras have amazing image quality. Wow! I want one.

[DavidRidlen]

Where is the "NasaHD channel" of Apollo footage, mentioned in the description?  

[chtwrone]

Apollo missions 15, 16 and 17 utilized the lunar rover. Why and how would they possibly bring them back to earth? All 3 are still at each of their respective landing sites, and can actually be seen in the LROC pictures - goolge 'LROC' and you will see them still on the lunar surface.

[SecularFelinist]

Still amazing, all these years later. In my opinion, space exploration is the only worthwhile thing our violent, self-destructive species has accomplished.

[arooobine]

Keep in mind this is NASA vs. homemade videos we're talking about.

[YDDES]

Of course You can see stars from Moon if You look straight up and block the brightly sunlit ground from Your field of view, but as soon as You get that bright surface in sight, Your eyes will adjust to that light and You will see no stars. Try to stand on a brightly illuminated city street at night and see how many stars You can see...
The same goes for the cameras. They were adjusted to take perfect pictures of the bright landscape. Not thr dim stars.

[MrRobtwothirds]

That astronaut does look very much like a model, I suppose that could mean that they could use a smaller Moon set, not that it makes much difference to the general un-realism of the video.

[viridismonasteriense]

So surreal. To think this was actually shot on another planet, technically not a planet, but fuck look at that! It's on the fucking moon! Incredible!

[Schytz]

Already done.
Search: Re: Moon Hoax- "That was done on Earth"
Atleast the dust is covered. Would be impossible to replicate on earth at that time.

[ralfrene]

American users should see the doll 30 cm sitting on Rover models.Small doll, it is necessary to highlight the powerful lamp in the Studio.If the Rover has been great and people sitting on the couch, would illuminate the lamp into a length of 100 m.The sensitivity of a film for film cameras.

[JeffDeanTheDeanZone]

You are correct I said "earth" I was using it in the metaphorical, I'm not going to discuss this with you anymore because you obviously have a reading comprehension problem. I was NEVER talking about the rate the VEHICLE fell back to the lunar surface I've BEEN TALKING about how fast the DUST SETTLES and it's FAR FASTER than the vehicles or the astronauts settle back to the surface and as you pointed out, they should fall at the SAME RATE but they clearly don't

[chtwrone]

Explain then Cal, why there are no stars in any of the International Space Station pictures that can be found on the internet?

[JeffDeanTheDeanZone]

Amazing video, watch the TRACKS this rover makes. Have you been following the controversy over the boot print photos and myth buster's showed how these perfect prints can be made "in a vacuum?" So, watch this rover video again and pay close attention to how fast the dust being kicked up falls back to the earth and look at the blurred indistinguishable TRACKS the rover makes. Clearly, by the debunker's OWN evidence THIS video HAS to be fake!

[KingFiveHead]

This looks real, I believe it's real, but I have one problem. How is it in HD? They didn't have this high quality of video back then, did they? Huh...

[adkinsjr]

@YDDES

I know, it's so obvious. Right there at 0:32 Steven Spielberg can be seen accidentally stumbling in front of the camera. Did you see it? How the hell did he get on the "moon." ???

-_-

[gojogingo]

宇宙兄弟に出てきた月面走行シーンを思い出しました
こんな感じなのですね
確かに距離感が掴み難いですね

[unvergebeneid]

Did we really watch the same video? The dust looks like nothing I have ever seen in my entire life and the rover looks like driving in slow motion. Just the camera shakes don't. Maybe you live in the Himalayas though.