Buzz Aldrin Shows Us How to Walk on the Moon - 4k

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July 20th 1969: 49 minutes after Neil Armstrong delivered his “one small step” line, Buzz Aldrin conducted a series of mobility tests to determine the best ways for astronauts to get around the lunar surface. His walkabout was seen live on television screens across planet Earth. Here – presented in 4K video for the first time – is the view from a motion picture camera in the Lunar Module. NASA’s original slow-scan TV stream has been inset for comparison.
Buzz’s test ended when Mission Control patched through a call from the President of the United States, Richard Nixon.
Suggested Tags: Moonwalk, Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin, walking on the moon, mobility.

Buzz Aldrin: I'd like to evaluate the various paces that a person can (static) traveling on the lunar surface. I believe I'm out of your field-of-view. Is that right, now, Houston?
Bruce McCandless CAPCOM (Mission Control): That's affirmative, Buzz. You're in our field-of-view now.
Buzz Aldrin: Alright, you do have to be rather careful to keep track of where your center of mass is. Sometimes, it takes about two or three paces to make sure you've got your feet underneath you.
About two to three or maybe four easy paces can bring you to a fairly smooth stop. (To) change directions, like a football player, you just have to put a foot out to the side and cut a little bit.
The so-called kangaroo hop does work, but it seems as though your forward mobility is not quite as good as it is in the more conventional one foot after another.
As far as saying what a sustained pace might be, I think that one that I'm using now would get rather tiring after several hundred (static). But this may be a function of this suit, as well as the lack of gravity forces.

[LnchALion]

Remember buzz punched that dude ? That was rad

[NeonsStyleHD]

Impressive men. Not many men could go do what they did at that time. It took a lot of balls to sit atop that rocket and do something that had never been done before. I remember that day like it was yesterday.

[chrisbanion]

"That would be an honor", back in the days when people understood honor.

[jimc.goodfellas]

In before the debate starts on whether this is real or not...

[jeffreylindsey]

Never personally met him but admired his accomplishments. He was a heck of an EVA guy in the Gemini program. Heard he was one of the smartest astronauts in his day.

[Teajonmustard]

Going to the moon is the most radical thing we’ve done so far

[marinabasco]

They were filmed either in a studio or on location in the Nevada desert. When it came down to filming the moonwalk scenes, lunar gravity was simulated by suspending the astronauts on wires to reduce their weight. And to complete the look, the videos of the astronauts on wires were played back in slow motion.

Ironically, the Mythbusters recently tried to debunk this by filming Adam Savage running around in a replica spacesuit. They filmed him both with and without wire suspension. But the only slow motion footage shown was of when he was not suspended by a wire. If one takes his wire jump footage, slows it down to 67% and then plays it alongside the original Apollo 16 footage, the two are a near-perfect synchronization.

[MonteiroM]

This is amazing, I have never seen this footage.

[shalommankind]

Today only 4 moon walkers(Astronauts) were alive. And I met 1 among them he's Charlie Duke. 😎😎

[johnnyrichardson]

THIS IS REAL PEOPLE. Where the hell did the idea of this being a hoax come up?

[TruthandjusticeXXL]

0:33 min.: transparent astronauts! Thank You for giving us the proof! lol

[Humble_Merchant]

Why is this the first time I've seen this?

[remediatrust]

Nicely walking somewhere above the earth surface GGWP!

[beataksiazek]

we learn about this in school i just love space

[cm]

So, Year 1969, 70, 71? Tiny camera on a stand livestreaming before Bluetooth or wifi?
Just a question...

[magos_]

Ain’t no one who could do it better than MJ

[choppinbroccoli]

What was the temperature at the time on the moon? Did they land during the two week long night?

[domo_hudson]

All the nay sayers and conspirators who used to say the flag waved in the wind... Look at that thing barely moving

[pees]

@Joe april I'm sure it was amazing to see Buzz and the moon in the same shot for the first time... when you were in Santa Monica.

[cacornett]

Ok so where is the long shadow that should be cast from the camera pole where he keeps going over to? Everything else has a shadow, the pole does not. Hmmm.