Lunar Rover Follows its Tracks Home: Apollo 15 1971 - 4K Colorization 60fps

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Apollo 15 Astronauts follow their outbound tracks back to the lunar module in 1971.
16 mm footage now AI enhanced, colorized and synchronized for the first time to the original live audio.

Experience the moon from their perspective travelling on the famous Lunar Rover.
( FYI - The astronauts pet name for the lunar module was the LM, pronounced LEM).

While some of our subscribers may wonder what exploring the moon has to do with fashion ( this channel's primary subject), we contend that NASA's early astronauts were about the coolest and most fashionable people on Earth.

Apollo 15 was the fourth mission to the moon and the first to have the Lunar Rover. It allowed major excursions by several miles, from the safety of the Lunar Module.
We're in the company of mission commander David R. Scott, and Lunar module pilot James B. Irwin.
This was filmed during their second day on the moon.
The audio ( recorded by NASA) has been synced to the film, for the first time - accurately. You can hear NASA cap-com ( capsule communicator) Joe Allen in real time conversation with the two astronauts.

In July 30, 1971, as Alfred M. Worden piloted the Command Module “Endeavor” in lunar orbit, Scott and Irwin descended in the Lunar Module "Falcon," to the Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) region at the foot of the Apennine mountain range.During over 67 hours of EVA's ( extravehicular activities) they explored Hadley Rille, a steep-walled fissure over 400 meters deep, which winds for more than 100 kilometres along the Apennine mountain range.

Footage Source:
Apollo 15 16MM Onboard Film

Audio Source:
Digitized, cataloged and archived by the Houston Audio Control Room, at the NASA Johnson Space Center.

AI enhancement:
1. Increased frame rate from 24 fps to 60 fps using Dain app.
2. Upscaled from 360p to 4K
3. Cleaned noise artifacts and removed yellow mask
4. Synched original NASA audio to clip.
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How I envy those 12 men that got to be on the moon. Absolutely had to be a life changing experience.

jiminglima-fhtg
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I have a new hobby of restoring damaged photos and colourising black and white photos .Thanks for sharing GD x

mortuaryartist
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The stuff on your channel makes me look at things with a childlike Wonder, I just can't believe how Vivid and spectacular everything looks. Great work!!

heatherr
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I loved this! My dad was an aerospace engineer for NASA and I grew up with the children of astronauts. I marvel whenever I see these surreal accomplishments! Thank you for sharing.

kathywilliams
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So weird.. it’s impossible to discern distance because no atmospheric distortion. A hill that looks 100 feet away could actually be a mountain 100 miles away.. you couldn’t tell.

kelvyquayo
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Amazing that astronauts drove a car on the Moon fifty years ago! You would have thought that we'd have a city there by now!

johnrandom
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Thank you for this! I was a tech at Bendix Aerospace, and was privileged to work on the ALSEP instruments for Apollo 14 & 15. Grateful for the memories!

rsteeb
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Out of this world!

Man those surreal clear view that only a vacuum enviroment had.

MrMa
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There's really nothing cooler than this.

RPGreg
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You feel that you are there with them, amazing quality and clarity of images.

Robert_Manners
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I love how clearly you can see the depth of the landscape. It made me realize even modern films don't get that entirely right

SuperNovaJinckUFO
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Yes. Those early NASA astronauts were the coolest and most fashionable people on the planet. They were also the bravest. Glamourdaze, thank you for this unexpected treat.

busybee
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Wow!! The footage is so clear. Looks like it was just shot or something. So cool and thanks for sharing!

DiscoverHudsonValley
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My Uncle was a top engineer for General Motors in the 60's and 70's when GM was awarded this project to build these rovers (first went to Boing, Boing subbed it to GM), my uncle was put on this project as one of the lead engineers, on a very accelerated pace, I was just a kid, my uncle was so proud, that thing had to fold up as small as a large suitcase to fit into a compartment in the lunar lander, it was such an exciting time, listening to him talk about the project, the Saturn 5 rockets, the moon landings, such a very proud time, since that time NASA has gone woke, Boing gone woke, GM has stayed the course, still building some of the best products on Earth and on the moon. My uncle died of a heart attack in 79, I still think about him.

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I got up very early as a child to watch EVERY moon walk,

jameseunice
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Crazy to think next year the Artemis moon footage will look exactly like this!!!!

WinkDaMan
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Beautiful and breathtaking. It's hard to believe it was ½ a century ago when I see it like this. Keep up the great work!

MonaLisa-zzcv
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As a player of 'Elite Dangerous', I was waiting for him to do some surface prospecting for raw matts. 👍

thelionsam
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I can't believe that I've never seen this before! It's stunning even before the enhancements! They should be showing this stuff (actually, this video in particular) in school!

wareforcoin
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This video is literally awesome! A super long distance with the rover, I have never seen it, thabksy

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