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"National Aeronautics and Space Administration... This film summarizes the exploration of the Moon conducted through unmanned Ranger, Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter spacecraft, and shows how such detailed data and photography contributed to the first manned flights to the Moon. The film describes the complexities of closeup photography of the Moon, and includes good views of craters, mountain ranges and other lunar terrain."
NASA film HQ-167
Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound.
Public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_program
The Ranger program was a series of unmanned space missions by the United States in the 1960s whose objective was to obtain the first close-up images of the surface of the Moon. The Ranger spacecraft were designed to take images of the lunar surface, returning those images until they were destroyed upon impact. A series of mishaps, however, led to the failure of the first six flights. At one point, the program was called "shoot and hope". Congress launched an investigation into "problems of management" at NASA Headquarters and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. After reorganizing the organization twice, Ranger 7 successfully returned images in July 1964, followed by two more successful missions.
Ranger was originally designed, beginning in 1959, in three distinct phases, called "blocks". Each block had different mission objectives and progressively more advanced system design. The JPL mission designers planned multiple launches in each block, to maximize the engineering experience and scientific value of the mission and to assure at least one successful flight. Total research, development, launch, and support costs for the Ranger series of spacecraft (Rangers 1 through 9) was approximately $170 million.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_Program
The Surveyor Program was a NASA program that, from 1966 through 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon. Its primary goal was to demonstrate the feasibility of soft landings on the Moon. The mission called for the craft to travel directly to the moon on an impact trajectory, on a journey that lasted 63 to 65 hours, and ended with a deceleration of just over three minutes to a soft-landing. The program was implemented by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to prepare for the Apollo program. The total cost of the Surveyor program was officially $469 million dollars.
Five of the Surveyor craft successfully soft-landed on the moon, including the first one. The other two failed: Surveyor 2 crashed at high velocity after a failed mid-course correction, and Surveyor 4 was lost to contact (possibly exploding) 2.5 minutes before its scheduled touch-down.
All seven spacecraft are still on the Moon; none of the missions included returning them to Earth. Some parts of Surveyor 3 were returned to Earth by the crew of Apollo 12, which landed near it in 1969. The camera from this craft is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter
The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface, they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit.
All five missions were successful, and 99% of the Moon was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters or better. The first three missions were dedicated to imaging 20 potential manned lunar landing sites, selected based on Earth-based observations. These were flown at low inclination orbits. The fourth and fifth missions were devoted to broader scientific objectives and were flown in high-altitude polar orbits... All Lunar Orbiter craft were launched by an Atlas-Agena D launch vehicle.
The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. Both lenses, a 610 mm narrow angle high resolution (HR) lens and an 80 mm wide angle medium resolution (MR) lens, placed their frame exposures on a single roll of 70 mm film... The film was then processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth.
During the Lunar Orbiter missions, the first pictures of Earth as a whole were taken...
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"Surveyor lands on the Moon, Lunar Orbiter, weather satellites, Orbiting Geophysical Observatory, Pioneer, sounding rockets, solar eclipse, X-15, lifting bodies, solid rockets, nuclear powered engines, Project Gemini ends, and Apollo-Saturn."
Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_Program
The Surveyor Program was a NASA program that, from 1966 through 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon. Its primary goal was to demonstrate the feasibility of soft landings on the Moon. The mission called for the craft to travel directly to the Moon on an impact trajectory, on a journey that lasted 63 to 65 hours, and ended with a deceleration of just over three minutes to a soft-landing. The program was implemented by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to prepare for the Apollo program...
Five of the Surveyor craft successfully soft-landed on the moon, including the first one. The other two failed: Surveyor 2 crashed at high velocity after a failed mid-course correction, and Surveyor 4 was lost to contact (possibly exploding) 2.5 minutes before its scheduled touch-down.
All seven spacecraft are still on the Moon; none of the missions included returning them to Earth. Some parts of Surveyor 3 were returned to Earth by the crew of Apollo 12, which landed near it in 1969. The camera from this craft is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_program
The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface, they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit.
All five missions were successful, and 99% of the Moon was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters or better... All Lunar Orbiter craft were launched by an Atlas-Agena D launch vehicle.
The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. Both lenses, a 610 mm narrow angle high resolution (HR) lens and an 80 mm wide angle medium resolution (MR) lens, placed their frame exposures on a single roll of 70 mm film... The film was then processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth.
During the Lunar Orbiter missions, the first pictures of Earth as a whole were taken, beginning with Earth-rise over the lunar surface by Lunar Orbiter 1 in August, 1966...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiting_Geophysical_Observatory
Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO) refers to the six satellites launched by the United States that were in use from September 1964 to 1972, designed to study the Earth's magnetosphere. The satellites successfully studied the interactions between the Earth and the Sun, despite a number of technical problems. Each satellite had 20 to 25 instruments. OGO 1, OGO 3, and OGO 5 were in equatorial orbits; OGO 2, OGO 4, and OGO 6 were in lower polar orbits...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA
NERVA is an acronym for Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application, a joint program of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and NASA managed by the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office (SNPO) until both the program and the office ended at the end of 1972.
NERVA demonstrated that nuclear thermal rocket engines were a feasible and reliable tool for space exploration, and at the end of 1968 SNPO certified that the latest NERVA engine, the NRX/XE, met the requirements for a manned Mars mission. Although NERVA engines were built and tested as much as possible with flight-certified components and the engine was deemed ready for integration into a spacecraft, much of the U.S. space program was cancelled by the Nixon Administration before a manned visit to Mars could take place.
NERVA was considered by the AEC, SNPO and NASA to be a highly successful program; it met or exceeded its program goals. Its principal objective was to "establish a technology base for nuclear rocket engine systems to be utilized in the design and development of propulsion systems for space mission application".[1] Virtually all space mission plans that use nuclear thermal rockets use derivative designs from the NERVA NRX or Pewee...
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An Apollo-era overview of the Lunar Orbiter program, spacecraft and mission. Describes the spacecraft trajectory and orbit, and how the Lunar Orbiter camera system works. Also mentions Ranger and Surveyor.
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_program
The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface, they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit.
All five missions were successful, and 99% of the Moon was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters (200 ft) or better. The first three missions were dedicated to imaging 20 potential manned lunar landing sites, selected based on Earth-based observations. These were flown at low inclination orbits. The fourth and fifth missions were devoted to broader scientific objectives and were flown in high-altitude polar orbits. Lunar Orbiter 4 photographed the entire nearside and 9% of the far side, and Lunar Orbiter 5 completed the far side coverage and acquired medium (20 m (66 ft)) and high (2 m (6 ft 7 in)) resolution images of 36 pre-selected areas. All Lunar Orbiter craft were launched by an Atlas-Agena D launch vehicle.
The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. Both lenses, a 610 mm (24 in) narrow angle high resolution (HR) lens and an 80 mm (3.1 in) wide angle medium resolution (MR) lens, placed their frame exposures on a single roll of 70 mm film. The axes of the two cameras were coincident so the area imaged in the HR frames were centered within the MR frame areas. The film was moved during exposure to compensate for the spacecraft velocity, which was estimated by an electro-optical sensor. The film was then processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth.
During the Lunar Orbiter missions, the first pictures of Earth as a whole were taken, beginning with Earth-rise over the lunar surface by Lunar Orbiter 1 in August, 1966. The first full picture of the whole Earth was taken by Lunar Orbiter 5 on 8 August 1967. A second photo of the whole Earth was taken by Lunar Orbiter 5 on 10 November 1967...
Backup
As a backup for Lunar Orbiter, NASA and NRO cooperated on the Lunar Mapping and Survey System (LM&SS;), based on the KH-7 reconnaissance satellite. Replacing the Lunar Module in the Saturn V, Apollo astronauts would operate LM&SS; remotely in lunar orbit. NASA canceled the project in the summer of 1967 after Lunar Orbiter's success...
The photographic system was provided by Eastman Kodak and derived from a system, provided by the National Reconnaissance Office, designed for the U-2 and SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft. The camera used two lenses to simultaneously expose a wide-angle and a high-resolution image on the same film. The wide-angle, medium resolution mode used an 80 mm F 2.8 Xenotar lens manufactured by Schneider Kreuznach, Germany. The high-resolution mode used a 610 mm F 5.6 Panoramic lens manufactured by the Pacific Optical Company. The film was developed on-orbit, and then scanned by a photomultiplier for transmission to Earth...
The Lunar Orbiter program was managed by NASA Langley Research Center at a total cost of roughly $200 million...
In 2000, the Astrogeology Research Program of the US Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona was funded by NASA (as part of the Lunar Orbiter Digitization Project) to scan at 25 micrometre resolution archival LO positive film strips that were produced from the original data. The goal was to produce a global mosaic of the Moon...
In 2007, the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) began a process to convert the Lunar Orbiter Images directly from the original Ampex FR-900 analog video recordings of the spacecraft data to digital image format, a change which provided vastly improved resolution over the original images released in the 1960s. The first of these restored images were released in late 2008...
- published: 14 Jun 2014
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Take a journey across the surface of the moon. See the earth rise and set from the lunar surface.
This video was recorded by the SELENE Lunar Orbiter - images are copyright JAXA / NHK
SELENE , better known in Japan by its nickname Kaguya, was the second Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft following the Hiten probe]
Produced by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) and the National Space Development Agency (NASDA), the spacecraft was launched on September 14, 2007. After successfully orbiting the Moon for a year and eight months, the main orbiter was instructed to impact on the lunar surface near the crater Gill on June 10, 2009.[2]
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Three days prior to its impact into a mountain on the moon, one of the twin spacecraft (named Ebb) from NASA's GRAIL mission took some photos from orbit. The spacecraft was about 6 miles above the lunar surface when the photos were take.
- published: 13 Jan 2013
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, LRO, has captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of where three Apollo missions were conducted on the moon's surface. The pictures of the Apollo 17, Apollo 14, and Apollo 12 landing sites were taken while LRO was in what's referred to as a "dipping orbit," where the spacecraft was roughly 15 miles above the surface. They reveal the twists and turns of the paths made when the missions' six astronauts explored these areas.
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The most recently launched lunar orbiter is China's Chang'e 2, which was launched in early October 2010. China is also planning to land motorized rovers and collect samples in the Chang'e 3 and Chang'e 4 missions and return lunar soil samples by 2018.[44]
Russia's Luna-Glob 1 expected to be launched in 2012. In 2007 the head of the Russian Space Agency announced plans to send cosmonauts to the Moon by 2025 and establish a permanent manned base there in 2027-2032.[45]
ISRO, the Indian National Space agency, is planning a second version of Chandrayaan named Chandrayaan 2. According to former ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair, "The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) hopes to land two motorised rovers - one Indian and another Russian - on the Moon in 2013, as a part of its second Chandrayaan mission. The rover will be designed to move on wheels on the lunar surface, pick up samples of soil or rocks, do on-site chemical analysis and send the data to the mother-spacecraft Chandrayaan II, which will be orbiting above. Chandrayaan II will transmit the data to Earth." The payloads have already been finalized.[46][47] ISRO has mentioned that due to weight restrictions it will not be carrying any overseas payloads on this mission. The lander weight is projected to be 1,250 kg, and the spacecraft will be launched by the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle.
The Google Lunar X Prize competition offers a $20 million award for the first privately funded team to land a robotic probe on the Moon. Like the Ansari X Prize before it, the competition aims to advance the state of the art in private space exploration.
Some people have insisted that the Apollo Moon landings were a hoax. These accusations flourish in part because predictions by enthusiasts that Moon landings would become commonplace have not yet come to pass. Some claims can be empirically discredited by three retroreflector arrays left on the Moon by Apollo 11,[49] 14 and 15. With new technology, it is possible for anyone on Earth with an appropriate laser and telescope system to bounce laser beams off these devices, verifying deployment of the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment at historically documented Apollo Moon landing sites. This evidence indicates the deployment of equipment which was constructed on Earth and successfully transported to the surface of the Moon. In addition, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, in August 2009, began to send back high resolution photos showing the Apollo landing sites.
A total of twelve people have landed on the Moon. This was accomplished with two US pilot-astronauts flying a Lunar Module on each of six NASA missions across a 41-month time span starting on 21 July 1969 UTC, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11 (with Armstrong being first to set foot on the surface), and ending on 14 December 1972 UTC with Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt on Apollo 17 (with Cernan being the last to step off the lunar surface). All Apollo lunar missions had a third crew member who remained onboard the Command Module. The last three missions had a rover for increased mobility.
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"AROUND THE MOON: A preview of actualities and simulations of the adventures around the Moon of the Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft. The facts of how it achieved its perfect orbit and what it did when it began its circling. The whole story of the Moon orbit mechanics and how the pictures taken are transmitted back to earth."
From Universal Newsreel Volume 39 Release 66
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
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LUNAR ORBITER PHOTO ATLAS http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/
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The Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic (unmanned) spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon...
The spacecraft was placed in an Earth parking orbit on August 10, 1966, at 19:31 UTC. The trans-lunar injection burn occurred at 20:04 UTC...
Lunar Orbiter 1 was injected into an elliptical near-equatorial lunar orbit 92.1 hours after launch... The spacecraft acquired photographic data from August 18 to 29, 1966, and readout occurred through September 14, 1966...
from The Lunar Orbiter (1965)
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19650008849_1965008849.pdf
The Lunar Orbiter has as its prime objective the photographic coverage of selected portions of the lunar surface. Although the Ranger Program has provided some extremely valuable high resolution lunar photographs, the coverage is too limited t o provide sufficient information for Apollo. The Lunar Orbiter coverage will be secured with sufficient resolution and will cover enough area to allow the selection of landing sites for Apollo, and in conjunction with the Surveyor Spacecraft will provide necessary information for the safe landing of Apollo. The spacecraft has been designed around its photographic payload, and does not carry many subsidiary experiments; however, it will provide information regarding the lunar gravitational , and a limited amount of information regarding micrometeorites and energetic particles...
It is planned that the first Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft will be launched in 1966, using an Atlas-Agena vehicle. The launch technique and procedures will be very similar to those used for the Ranger Spacecraft, except for the launch windows and the targeting required for proper lunar orbits. These are unique for the Orbiter...
The spacecraft camera... contains two f15.6 lenses, a 24-inch focal length high-resolution lens, and a 3-inch focal length lens used for moderate resolution stereo coverage. Simultaneous exposures are made...
...In the flight configuration all of the main spacecraft structure above the equipment mounting deck is covered with a highly reflective shroud of aluminum coated mylar. During launch, the solar panels are folded under the spacecraft base and the antennas held against the side of the structure. The spacecraft is 5 1/2 feet high and 5 feet in diameter, excluding the solar panels and antennas. When deployed, the span along the antenna booms is l& feet and about 12 feet across the solar panels...
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Universal Newsreel report from August 1966. Title: "Around The Moon. Orbiter camera ready to film landing sites".
The Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic (unmanned) spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon. It was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. It was also equipped to collect selenodetic, radiation intensity, and micrometeoroid impact data.
The spacecraft was placed in an Earth parking orbit on August 10, 1966, at 19:31 UTC. The trans-lunar injection burn occurred at 20:04 UTC. The spacecraft experienced a temporary failure of the Canopus star tracker (probably due to stray sunlight) and overheating during its cruise to the Moon. The star tracker problem was resolved by navigating using the Moon as a reference, and the overheating was abated by orienting the spacecraft 36 degrees off-Sun to lower the temperature.
Lunar Orbiter 1 was injected into an elliptical near-equatorial lunar orbit 92.1 hours after launch. The initial orbit was 189.1 by 1,866.8 kilometers (117.5 mi × 1,160.0 mi) and had a period of 3 hours 37 minutes and an inclination of 12.2 degrees. On August 21, perilune was dropped to 58 km (36 mi) and on August 25 to 40.5 km (25.2 mi). The spacecraft acquired photographic data from August 18 to 29, 1966, and readout occurred through September 14, 1966.
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Lunar Orbiter program
The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface, they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit.
All five missions were successful, and 99% of the Moon was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters (200 ft) or better. The first three missions were dedicated to imaging 20 potential manned lunar landing sites, selected based on Earth-based observations. These were flown at low-inclination orbits. The fourth and fifth missions were devoted to broader scientific objectives and were flown in high-altitude polar orbits. Lunar Orbiter 4 photographed the entire nearside and 9% of the far side, and Lunar Orbiter 5 completed the far side coverage and acquired medium (20 m (66 ft)) and high (2 m (6 ft 7 in)) resolution images of 36 pre-selected areas. All Lunar Orbiter craft were launched by an Atlas-Agena D launch vehicle.
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Lunar
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Orbiter
An orbiter is a space probe that orbits a planet or other astronomical object. An orbiter can be either man-made, or created naturally..
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Asteroids
Earth
Jupiter
Mars
Mercury
Moon
Saturn
Sun
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Lunar Orbiter 1
The Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic (unmanned) spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon. It was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. It was also equipped to collect selenodetic, radiation intensity, and micrometeoroid impact data.
The spacecraft was placed in an Earth parking orbit on August 10, 1966 at 19:31 (UTC). The trans-lunar injection burn occurred at 20:04 (UTC). The spacecraft experienced a temporary failure of the Canopus star tracker (probably due to stray sunlight) and overheating during its cruise to the Moon. The star tracker problem was resolved by navigating using the Moon as a reference, and the overheating was abated by orienting the spacecraft 36 degrees off-Sun to lower the temperature.
Lunar Orbiter 1 was injected into an elliptical near-equatorial lunar orbit 92.1 hours after launch. The initial orbit was 189.1 by 1,866.8 kilometres (117.5 mi × 1,160.0 mi) and had a period of 3 hours 37 minutes and an inclination of 12.2 degrees. On August 21, perilune was dropped to 58 kilometres (36 mi) and on August 25 to 40.5 kilometres (25.2 mi). The spacecraft acquired photographic data from August 18 to 29, 1966, and readout occurred through September 14, 1966.
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Moon
The Moon (in Greek: σελήνη Selene, in Latin: Luna) is Earth's only natural satellite. It is one of the largest natural satellites in the Solar System, and, among planetary satellites, the largest relative to the size of the planet it orbits (its primary). It is the second-densest satellite among those whose densities are known (after Jupiter's satellite Io).
The Moon is thought to have formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago, not long after Earth. There are several hypotheses for its origin; the most widely accepted explanation is that the Moon formed from the debris left over after a giant impact between Earth and a Mars-sized body called Theia.
The Moon is in synchronous rotation with Earth, always showing the same face with its near side marked by dark volcanic maria that fill between the bright ancient crustal highlands and the prominent impact craters. It is the second-brightest regularly visible celestial object in Earth's sky after the Sun, as measured by illuminance on Earth's surface. Although it can appear a very bright white, its surface is actually dark, with a reflectance just slightly higher than that of worn asphalt. Its prominence in the sky and its regular cycle of phases have, since ancient times, made the Moon an important cultural influence on language, calendars, art, and mythology.
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25:27Lunar Photography: "Assignment: Shoot the Moon" 1967 NASA; Ranger, Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter
Lunar Photography: "Assignment: Shoot the Moon" 1967 NASA; Ranger, Surveyor, Lunar OrbiterLunar Photography: "Assignment: Shoot the Moon" 1967 NASA; Ranger, Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html "National Aeronautics and Space Administration... This film summarizes the exploration of the Moon conducted through unmanned Ranger, Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter spacecraft, and shows how such detailed data and photography contributed to the first manned flights to the Moon. The film describes the complexities of closeup photography of the Moon, and includes good views of craters, mountain ranges and other lunar terrain." NASA film HQ-167 Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound. Public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_program The Ranger program was a series of unmanned space missions by the United States in the 1960s whose objective was to obtain the first close-up images of the surface of the Moon. The Ranger spacecraft were designed to take images of the lunar surface, returning those images until they were destroyed upon impact. A series of mishaps, however, led to the failure of the first six flights. At one point, the program was called "shoot and hope". Congress launched an investigation into "problems of management" at NASA Headquarters and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. After reorganizing the organization twice, Ranger 7 successfully returned images in July 1964, followed by two more successful missions. Ranger was originally designed, beginning in 1959, in three distinct phases, called "blocks". Each block had different mission objectives and progressively more advanced system design. The JPL mission designers planned multiple launches in each block, to maximize the engineering experience and scientific value of the mission and to assure at least one successful flight. Total research, development, launch, and support costs for the Ranger series of spacecraft (Rangers 1 through 9) was approximately $170 million. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_Program The Surveyor Program was a NASA program that, from 1966 through 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon. Its primary goal was to demonstrate the feasibility of soft landings on the Moon. The mission called for the craft to travel directly to the moon on an impact trajectory, on a journey that lasted 63 to 65 hours, and ended with a deceleration of just over three minutes to a soft-landing. The program was implemented by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to prepare for the Apollo program. The total cost of the Surveyor program was officially $469 million dollars. Five of the Surveyor craft successfully soft-landed on the moon, including the first one. The other two failed: Surveyor 2 crashed at high velocity after a failed mid-course correction, and Surveyor 4 was lost to contact (possibly exploding) 2.5 minutes before its scheduled touch-down. All seven spacecraft are still on the Moon; none of the missions included returning them to Earth. Some parts of Surveyor 3 were returned to Earth by the crew of Apollo 12, which landed near it in 1969. The camera from this craft is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface, they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit. All five missions were successful, and 99% of the Moon was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters or better. The first three missions were dedicated to imaging 20 potential manned lunar landing sites, selected based on Earth-based observations. These were flown at low inclination orbits. The fourth and fifth missions were devoted to broader scientific objectives and were flown in high-altitude polar orbits... All Lunar Orbiter craft were launched by an Atlas-Agena D launch vehicle. The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. Both lenses, a 610 mm narrow angle high resolution (HR) lens and an 80 mm wide angle medium resolution (MR) lens, placed their frame exposures on a single roll of 70 mm film... The film was then processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth. During the Lunar Orbiter missions, the first pictures of Earth as a whole were taken... -
14:331966 NASA Highlights: "Aeronautics and Space Report" Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter, Gemini, X-15...
1966 NASA Highlights: "Aeronautics and Space Report" Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter, Gemini, X-15...1966 NASA Highlights: "Aeronautics and Space Report" Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter, Gemini, X-15...
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/nasa_news.html "Surveyor lands on the Moon, Lunar Orbiter, weather satellites, Orbiting Geophysical Observatory, Pioneer, sounding rockets, solar eclipse, X-15, lifting bodies, solid rockets, nuclear powered engines, Project Gemini ends, and Apollo-Saturn." Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_Program The Surveyor Program was a NASA program that, from 1966 through 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon. Its primary goal was to demonstrate the feasibility of soft landings on the Moon. The mission called for the craft to travel directly to the Moon on an impact trajectory, on a journey that lasted 63 to 65 hours, and ended with a deceleration of just over three minutes to a soft-landing. The program was implemented by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to prepare for the Apollo program... Five of the Surveyor craft successfully soft-landed on the moon, including the first one. The other two failed: Surveyor 2 crashed at high velocity after a failed mid-course correction, and Surveyor 4 was lost to contact (possibly exploding) 2.5 minutes before its scheduled touch-down. All seven spacecraft are still on the Moon; none of the missions included returning them to Earth. Some parts of Surveyor 3 were returned to Earth by the crew of Apollo 12, which landed near it in 1969. The camera from this craft is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_program The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface, they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit. All five missions were successful, and 99% of the Moon was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters or better... All Lunar Orbiter craft were launched by an Atlas-Agena D launch vehicle. The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. Both lenses, a 610 mm narrow angle high resolution (HR) lens and an 80 mm wide angle medium resolution (MR) lens, placed their frame exposures on a single roll of 70 mm film... The film was then processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth. During the Lunar Orbiter missions, the first pictures of Earth as a whole were taken, beginning with Earth-rise over the lunar surface by Lunar Orbiter 1 in August, 1966... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiting_Geophysical_Observatory Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO) refers to the six satellites launched by the United States that were in use from September 1964 to 1972, designed to study the Earth's magnetosphere. The satellites successfully studied the interactions between the Earth and the Sun, despite a number of technical problems. Each satellite had 20 to 25 instruments. OGO 1, OGO 3, and OGO 5 were in equatorial orbits; OGO 2, OGO 4, and OGO 6 were in lower polar orbits... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA NERVA is an acronym for Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application, a joint program of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and NASA managed by the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office (SNPO) until both the program and the office ended at the end of 1972. NERVA demonstrated that nuclear thermal rocket engines were a feasible and reliable tool for space exploration, and at the end of 1968 SNPO certified that the latest NERVA engine, the NRX/XE, met the requirements for a manned Mars mission. Although NERVA engines were built and tested as much as possible with flight-certified components and the engine was deemed ready for integration into a spacecraft, much of the U.S. space program was cancelled by the Nixon Administration before a manned visit to Mars could take place. NERVA was considered by the AEC, SNPO and NASA to be a highly successful program; it met or exceeded its program goals. Its principal objective was to "establish a technology base for nuclear rocket engine systems to be utilized in the design and development of propulsion systems for space mission application".[1] Virtually all space mission plans that use nuclear thermal rockets use derivative designs from the NERVA NRX or Pewee... -
10:14Lunar Orbiter: "Close Up of the Moon, A Look at Lunar Orbiter" circa 1967 NASA
Lunar Orbiter: "Close Up of the Moon, A Look at Lunar Orbiter" circa 1967 NASALunar Orbiter: "Close Up of the Moon, A Look at Lunar Orbiter" circa 1967 NASA
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/nasa_news.html An Apollo-era overview of the Lunar Orbiter program, spacecraft and mission. Describes the spacecraft trajectory and orbit, and how the Lunar Orbiter camera system works. Also mentions Ranger and Surveyor. Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_program The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface, they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit. All five missions were successful, and 99% of the Moon was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters (200 ft) or better. The first three missions were dedicated to imaging 20 potential manned lunar landing sites, selected based on Earth-based observations. These were flown at low inclination orbits. The fourth and fifth missions were devoted to broader scientific objectives and were flown in high-altitude polar orbits. Lunar Orbiter 4 photographed the entire nearside and 9% of the far side, and Lunar Orbiter 5 completed the far side coverage and acquired medium (20 m (66 ft)) and high (2 m (6 ft 7 in)) resolution images of 36 pre-selected areas. All Lunar Orbiter craft were launched by an Atlas-Agena D launch vehicle. The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. Both lenses, a 610 mm (24 in) narrow angle high resolution (HR) lens and an 80 mm (3.1 in) wide angle medium resolution (MR) lens, placed their frame exposures on a single roll of 70 mm film. The axes of the two cameras were coincident so the area imaged in the HR frames were centered within the MR frame areas. The film was moved during exposure to compensate for the spacecraft velocity, which was estimated by an electro-optical sensor. The film was then processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth. During the Lunar Orbiter missions, the first pictures of Earth as a whole were taken, beginning with Earth-rise over the lunar surface by Lunar Orbiter 1 in August, 1966. The first full picture of the whole Earth was taken by Lunar Orbiter 5 on 8 August 1967. A second photo of the whole Earth was taken by Lunar Orbiter 5 on 10 November 1967... Backup As a backup for Lunar Orbiter, NASA and NRO cooperated on the Lunar Mapping and Survey System (LM&SS;), based on the KH-7 reconnaissance satellite. Replacing the Lunar Module in the Saturn V, Apollo astronauts would operate LM&SS; remotely in lunar orbit. NASA canceled the project in the summer of 1967 after Lunar Orbiter's success... The photographic system was provided by Eastman Kodak and derived from a system, provided by the National Reconnaissance Office, designed for the U-2 and SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft. The camera used two lenses to simultaneously expose a wide-angle and a high-resolution image on the same film. The wide-angle, medium resolution mode used an 80 mm F 2.8 Xenotar lens manufactured by Schneider Kreuznach, Germany. The high-resolution mode used a 610 mm F 5.6 Panoramic lens manufactured by the Pacific Optical Company. The film was developed on-orbit, and then scanned by a photomultiplier for transmission to Earth... The Lunar Orbiter program was managed by NASA Langley Research Center at a total cost of roughly $200 million... In 2000, the Astrogeology Research Program of the US Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona was funded by NASA (as part of the Lunar Orbiter Digitization Project) to scan at 25 micrometre resolution archival LO positive film strips that were produced from the original data. The goal was to produce a global mosaic of the Moon... In 2007, the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) began a process to convert the Lunar Orbiter Images directly from the original Ampex FR-900 analog video recordings of the spacecraft data to digital image format, a change which provided vastly improved resolution over the original images released in the 1960s. The first of these restored images were released in late 2008... -
0:00Video Replay: The Moon - Incredible Lunar Views From The Japanese SELENE Orbiter - Earthrise
Video Replay: The Moon - Incredible Lunar Views From The Japanese SELENE Orbiter - EarthriseVideo Replay: The Moon - Incredible Lunar Views From The Japanese SELENE Orbiter - Earthrise
Take a journey across the surface of the moon. See the earth rise and set from the lunar surface. This video was recorded by the SELENE Lunar Orbiter - images are copyright JAXA / NHK SELENE , better known in Japan by its nickname Kaguya, was the second Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft following the Hiten probe] Produced by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) and the National Space Development Agency (NASDA), the spacecraft was launched on September 14, 2007. After successfully orbiting the Moon for a year and eight months, the main orbiter was instructed to impact on the lunar surface near the crater Gill on June 10, 2009.[2] Subscribe For More Videos Like This: http://www.youtube.com/user/ouramazingspace?sub_confirmation=1 See my latest videos : https://www.youtube.com/user/ouramazingspace/videos Bringing you the BEST Space and Astronomy videos online. Showcasing videos and images from the likes of NASA,ESA,Hubble etc. Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spaceisamazing Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmazingSpace2 Google+ : http://goo.gl/1WCBn9 -
1:52Final Photos Taken From Doomed Lunar Orbiter | Video
Final Photos Taken From Doomed Lunar Orbiter | VideoFinal Photos Taken From Doomed Lunar Orbiter | Video
Three days prior to its impact into a mountain on the moon, one of the twin spacecraft (named Ebb) from NASA's GRAIL mission took some photos from orbit. The spacecraft was about 6 miles above the lunar surface when the photos were take. -
3:40LRO Revisits Apollo Landing Sites
LRO Revisits Apollo Landing SitesLRO Revisits Apollo Landing Sites
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, LRO, has captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of where three Apollo missions were conducted on the moon's surface. The pictures of the Apollo 17, Apollo 14, and Apollo 12 landing sites were taken while LRO was in what's referred to as a "dipping orbit," where the spacecraft was roughly 15 miles above the surface. They reveal the twists and turns of the paths made when the missions' six astronauts explored these areas. -
0:04Enhanced Lunar Orbiter II Image of Copernicus
Enhanced Lunar Orbiter II Image of CopernicusEnhanced Lunar Orbiter II Image of Copernicus
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9:06WHY NASA NEVER RETURNED TO THE MOON? PART 2 (APRIL 2011)
WHY NASA NEVER RETURNED TO THE MOON? PART 2 (APRIL 2011)WHY NASA NEVER RETURNED TO THE MOON? PART 2 (APRIL 2011)
The most recently launched lunar orbiter is China's Chang'e 2, which was launched in early October 2010. China is also planning to land motorized rovers and collect samples in the Chang'e 3 and Chang'e 4 missions and return lunar soil samples by 2018.[44] Russia's Luna-Glob 1 expected to be launched in 2012. In 2007 the head of the Russian Space Agency announced plans to send cosmonauts to the Moon by 2025 and establish a permanent manned base there in 2027-2032.[45] ISRO, the Indian National Space agency, is planning a second version of Chandrayaan named Chandrayaan 2. According to former ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair, "The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) hopes to land two motorised rovers - one Indian and another Russian - on the Moon in 2013, as a part of its second Chandrayaan mission. The rover will be designed to move on wheels on the lunar surface, pick up samples of soil or rocks, do on-site chemical analysis and send the data to the mother-spacecraft Chandrayaan II, which will be orbiting above. Chandrayaan II will transmit the data to Earth." The payloads have already been finalized.[46][47] ISRO has mentioned that due to weight restrictions it will not be carrying any overseas payloads on this mission. The lander weight is projected to be 1,250 kg, and the spacecraft will be launched by the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle. The Google Lunar X Prize competition offers a $20 million award for the first privately funded team to land a robotic probe on the Moon. Like the Ansari X Prize before it, the competition aims to advance the state of the art in private space exploration. Some people have insisted that the Apollo Moon landings were a hoax. These accusations flourish in part because predictions by enthusiasts that Moon landings would become commonplace have not yet come to pass. Some claims can be empirically discredited by three retroreflector arrays left on the Moon by Apollo 11,[49] 14 and 15. With new technology, it is possible for anyone on Earth with an appropriate laser and telescope system to bounce laser beams off these devices, verifying deployment of the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment at historically documented Apollo Moon landing sites. This evidence indicates the deployment of equipment which was constructed on Earth and successfully transported to the surface of the Moon. In addition, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, in August 2009, began to send back high resolution photos showing the Apollo landing sites. A total of twelve people have landed on the Moon. This was accomplished with two US pilot-astronauts flying a Lunar Module on each of six NASA missions across a 41-month time span starting on 21 July 1969 UTC, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11 (with Armstrong being first to set foot on the surface), and ending on 14 December 1972 UTC with Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt on Apollo 17 (with Cernan being the last to step off the lunar surface). All Apollo lunar missions had a third crew member who remained onboard the Command Module. The last three missions had a rover for increased mobility. -
2:04Lunar Orbiter 1 Arrives at Moon 1966 Universal Newsreel August 15, 1966
Lunar Orbiter 1 Arrives at Moon 1966 Universal Newsreel August 15, 1966Lunar Orbiter 1 Arrives at Moon 1966 Universal Newsreel August 15, 1966
Apollo Spacecraft & Lunar Exploration Testing playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7DDA54A0628C6392 more at: http://scitech.quickfound.net "AROUND THE MOON: A preview of actualities and simulations of the adventures around the Moon of the Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft. The facts of how it achieved its perfect orbit and what it did when it began its circling. The whole story of the Moon orbit mechanics and how the pictures taken are transmitted back to earth." From Universal Newsreel Volume 39 Release 66 Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). LUNAR ORBITER PHOTO ATLAS http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/ NSSDC Lunar Orbiter Links: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/lunarorb.html http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_1 The Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic (unmanned) spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon... The spacecraft was placed in an Earth parking orbit on August 10, 1966, at 19:31 UTC. The trans-lunar injection burn occurred at 20:04 UTC... Lunar Orbiter 1 was injected into an elliptical near-equatorial lunar orbit 92.1 hours after launch... The spacecraft acquired photographic data from August 18 to 29, 1966, and readout occurred through September 14, 1966... from The Lunar Orbiter (1965) http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19650008849_1965008849.pdf The Lunar Orbiter has as its prime objective the photographic coverage of selected portions of the lunar surface. Although the Ranger Program has provided some extremely valuable high resolution lunar photographs, the coverage is too limited t o provide sufficient information for Apollo. The Lunar Orbiter coverage will be secured with sufficient resolution and will cover enough area to allow the selection of landing sites for Apollo, and in conjunction with the Surveyor Spacecraft will provide necessary information for the safe landing of Apollo. The spacecraft has been designed around its photographic payload, and does not carry many subsidiary experiments; however, it will provide information regarding the lunar gravitational , and a limited amount of information regarding micrometeorites and energetic particles... It is planned that the first Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft will be launched in 1966, using an Atlas-Agena vehicle. The launch technique and procedures will be very similar to those used for the Ranger Spacecraft, except for the launch windows and the targeting required for proper lunar orbits. These are unique for the Orbiter... The spacecraft camera... contains two f15.6 lenses, a 24-inch focal length high-resolution lens, and a 3-inch focal length lens used for moderate resolution stereo coverage. Simultaneous exposures are made... ...In the flight configuration all of the main spacecraft structure above the equipment mounting deck is covered with a highly reflective shroud of aluminum coated mylar. During launch, the solar panels are folded under the spacecraft base and the antennas held against the side of the structure. The spacecraft is 5 1/2 feet high and 5 feet in diameter, excluding the solar panels and antennas. When deployed, the span along the antenna booms is l& feet and about 12 feet across the solar panels... -
1:48Lunar Orbiter 1: Around The Moon - 1966 Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42
Lunar Orbiter 1: Around The Moon - 1966 Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42Lunar Orbiter 1: Around The Moon - 1966 Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42
Universal Newsreel report from August 1966. Title: "Around The Moon. Orbiter camera ready to film landing sites". The Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic (unmanned) spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon. It was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. It was also equipped to collect selenodetic, radiation intensity, and micrometeoroid impact data. The spacecraft was placed in an Earth parking orbit on August 10, 1966, at 19:31 UTC. The trans-lunar injection burn occurred at 20:04 UTC. The spacecraft experienced a temporary failure of the Canopus star tracker (probably due to stray sunlight) and overheating during its cruise to the Moon. The star tracker problem was resolved by navigating using the Moon as a reference, and the overheating was abated by orienting the spacecraft 36 degrees off-Sun to lower the temperature. Lunar Orbiter 1 was injected into an elliptical near-equatorial lunar orbit 92.1 hours after launch. The initial orbit was 189.1 by 1,866.8 kilometers (117.5 mi × 1,160.0 mi) and had a period of 3 hours 37 minutes and an inclination of 12.2 degrees. On August 21, perilune was dropped to 58 km (36 mi) and on August 25 to 40.5 km (25.2 mi). The spacecraft acquired photographic data from August 18 to 29, 1966, and readout occurred through September 14, 1966. WDTVLIVE42 - Transport, technology, and general interest movies from the past - newsreels, documentaries & publicity films from my archives. #wdtvlive42 #nasa #moonlanding
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Lunar Photography: "Assignment: Shoot the Moon" 1967 NASA; Ranger, Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html "National Aeronautics and Space Administration... This film summarizes the exploration of the Moon conducted through unmanned Ranger, Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter spacecraft, and shows how such detailed data and photography contributed to the first manned flights to the Moon. The film describes the complexities of closeup photography of the Moon, and includes good views of craters, mountain ranges and other lunar terrain." NASA film HQ-167 Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound. Public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack w...
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1966 NASA Highlights: "Aeronautics and Space Report" Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter, Gemini, X-15...
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/nasa_news.html "Surveyor lands on the Moon, Lunar Orbiter, weather satellites, Orbiting Geophysical Observatory, Pioneer, sounding rockets, solar eclipse, X-15, lifting bodies, solid rockets, nuclear powered engines, Project Gemini ends, and Apollo-Saturn." Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_Program The Surveyor Program was a NASA program that, from 1966 through 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the...
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Lunar Orbiter: "Close Up of the Moon, A Look at Lunar Orbiter" circa 1967 NASA
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/nasa_news.html An Apollo-era overview of the Lunar Orbiter program, spacecraft and mission. Describes the spacecraft trajectory and orbit, and how the Lunar Orbiter camera system works. Also mentions Ranger and Surveyor. Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_program The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter m...
published: 14 Jun 2014 -
Video Replay: The Moon - Incredible Lunar Views From The Japanese SELENE Orbiter - Earthrise
Take a journey across the surface of the moon. See the earth rise and set from the lunar surface. This video was recorded by the SELENE Lunar Orbiter - images are copyright JAXA / NHK SELENE , better known in Japan by its nickname Kaguya, was the second Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft following the Hiten probe] Produced by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) and the National Space Development Agency (NASDA), the spacecraft was launched on September 14, 2007. After successfully orbiting the Moon for a year and eight months, the main orbiter was instructed to impact on the lunar surface near the crater Gill on June 10, 2009.[2] Subscribe For More Videos Like This: http://www.youtube.com/user/ouramazingspace?sub_confirmation=1 See my latest videos : https://www.you...
published: 24 Nov 2016 -
Final Photos Taken From Doomed Lunar Orbiter | Video
Three days prior to its impact into a mountain on the moon, one of the twin spacecraft (named Ebb) from NASA's GRAIL mission took some photos from orbit. The spacecraft was about 6 miles above the lunar surface when the photos were take.
published: 13 Jan 2013 -
LRO Revisits Apollo Landing Sites
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, LRO, has captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of where three Apollo missions were conducted on the moon's surface. The pictures of the Apollo 17, Apollo 14, and Apollo 12 landing sites were taken while LRO was in what's referred to as a "dipping orbit," where the spacecraft was roughly 15 miles above the surface. They reveal the twists and turns of the paths made when the missions' six astronauts explored these areas.
published: 06 Sep 2011 -
Enhanced Lunar Orbiter II Image of Copernicus
published: 04 Sep 2011 -
WHY NASA NEVER RETURNED TO THE MOON? PART 2 (APRIL 2011)
The most recently launched lunar orbiter is China's Chang'e 2, which was launched in early October 2010. China is also planning to land motorized rovers and collect samples in the Chang'e 3 and Chang'e 4 missions and return lunar soil samples by 2018.[44] Russia's Luna-Glob 1 expected to be launched in 2012. In 2007 the head of the Russian Space Agency announced plans to send cosmonauts to the Moon by 2025 and establish a permanent manned base there in 2027-2032.[45] ISRO, the Indian National Space agency, is planning a second version of Chandrayaan named Chandrayaan 2. According to former ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair, "The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) hopes to land two motorised rovers - one Indian and another Russian - on the Moon in 2013, as a part of its second Chandra...
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Lunar Orbiter 1 Arrives at Moon 1966 Universal Newsreel August 15, 1966
Apollo Spacecraft & Lunar Exploration Testing playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7DDA54A0628C6392 more at: http://scitech.quickfound.net "AROUND THE MOON: A preview of actualities and simulations of the adventures around the Moon of the Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft. The facts of how it achieved its perfect orbit and what it did when it began its circling. The whole story of the Moon orbit mechanics and how the pictures taken are transmitted back to earth." From Universal Newsreel Volume 39 Release 66 Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise ...
published: 30 Nov 2016 -
Lunar Orbiter 1: Around The Moon - 1966 Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42
Universal Newsreel report from August 1966. Title: "Around The Moon. Orbiter camera ready to film landing sites". The Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic (unmanned) spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon. It was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. It was also equipped to collect selenodetic, radiation intensity, and micrometeoroid impact data. The spacecraft was placed in an Earth parking orbit on August 10, 1966, at 19:31 UTC. The trans-lunar injection burn occurred at 20:04 UTC. The spacecraft experienced a temporary failure of the Canopus star tracker (probably due to stray sunlight) and overheating during its cruise ...
published: 10 Apr 2017
Lunar Photography: "Assignment: Shoot the Moon" 1967 NASA; Ranger, Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter
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more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html
"National Aeronautics and Space Administration... This film summarizes the exploration of the M...
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html
"National Aeronautics and Space Administration... This film summarizes the exploration of the Moon conducted through unmanned Ranger, Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter spacecraft, and shows how such detailed data and photography contributed to the first manned flights to the Moon. The film describes the complexities of closeup photography of the Moon, and includes good views of craters, mountain ranges and other lunar terrain."
NASA film HQ-167
Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound.
Public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_program
The Ranger program was a series of unmanned space missions by the United States in the 1960s whose objective was to obtain the first close-up images of the surface of the Moon. The Ranger spacecraft were designed to take images of the lunar surface, returning those images until they were destroyed upon impact. A series of mishaps, however, led to the failure of the first six flights. At one point, the program was called "shoot and hope". Congress launched an investigation into "problems of management" at NASA Headquarters and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. After reorganizing the organization twice, Ranger 7 successfully returned images in July 1964, followed by two more successful missions.
Ranger was originally designed, beginning in 1959, in three distinct phases, called "blocks". Each block had different mission objectives and progressively more advanced system design. The JPL mission designers planned multiple launches in each block, to maximize the engineering experience and scientific value of the mission and to assure at least one successful flight. Total research, development, launch, and support costs for the Ranger series of spacecraft (Rangers 1 through 9) was approximately $170 million.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_Program
The Surveyor Program was a NASA program that, from 1966 through 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon. Its primary goal was to demonstrate the feasibility of soft landings on the Moon. The mission called for the craft to travel directly to the moon on an impact trajectory, on a journey that lasted 63 to 65 hours, and ended with a deceleration of just over three minutes to a soft-landing. The program was implemented by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to prepare for the Apollo program. The total cost of the Surveyor program was officially $469 million dollars.
Five of the Surveyor craft successfully soft-landed on the moon, including the first one. The other two failed: Surveyor 2 crashed at high velocity after a failed mid-course correction, and Surveyor 4 was lost to contact (possibly exploding) 2.5 minutes before its scheduled touch-down.
All seven spacecraft are still on the Moon; none of the missions included returning them to Earth. Some parts of Surveyor 3 were returned to Earth by the crew of Apollo 12, which landed near it in 1969. The camera from this craft is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter
The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface, they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit.
All five missions were successful, and 99% of the Moon was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters or better. The first three missions were dedicated to imaging 20 potential manned lunar landing sites, selected based on Earth-based observations. These were flown at low inclination orbits. The fourth and fifth missions were devoted to broader scientific objectives and were flown in high-altitude polar orbits... All Lunar Orbiter craft were launched by an Atlas-Agena D launch vehicle.
The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. Both lenses, a 610 mm narrow angle high resolution (HR) lens and an 80 mm wide angle medium resolution (MR) lens, placed their frame exposures on a single roll of 70 mm film... The film was then processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth.
During the Lunar Orbiter missions, the first pictures of Earth as a whole were taken...
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"National Aeronautics and Space Administration... This film summarizes the exploration of the Moon conducted through unmanned Ranger, Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter spacecraft, and shows how such detailed data and photography contributed to the first manned flights to the Moon. The film describes the complexities of closeup photography of the Moon, and includes good views of craters, mountain ranges and other lunar terrain."
NASA film HQ-167
Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound.
Public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_program
The Ranger program was a series of unmanned space missions by the United States in the 1960s whose objective was to obtain the first close-up images of the surface of the Moon. The Ranger spacecraft were designed to take images of the lunar surface, returning those images until they were destroyed upon impact. A series of mishaps, however, led to the failure of the first six flights. At one point, the program was called "shoot and hope". Congress launched an investigation into "problems of management" at NASA Headquarters and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. After reorganizing the organization twice, Ranger 7 successfully returned images in July 1964, followed by two more successful missions.
Ranger was originally designed, beginning in 1959, in three distinct phases, called "blocks". Each block had different mission objectives and progressively more advanced system design. The JPL mission designers planned multiple launches in each block, to maximize the engineering experience and scientific value of the mission and to assure at least one successful flight. Total research, development, launch, and support costs for the Ranger series of spacecraft (Rangers 1 through 9) was approximately $170 million.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_Program
The Surveyor Program was a NASA program that, from 1966 through 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon. Its primary goal was to demonstrate the feasibility of soft landings on the Moon. The mission called for the craft to travel directly to the moon on an impact trajectory, on a journey that lasted 63 to 65 hours, and ended with a deceleration of just over three minutes to a soft-landing. The program was implemented by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to prepare for the Apollo program. The total cost of the Surveyor program was officially $469 million dollars.
Five of the Surveyor craft successfully soft-landed on the moon, including the first one. The other two failed: Surveyor 2 crashed at high velocity after a failed mid-course correction, and Surveyor 4 was lost to contact (possibly exploding) 2.5 minutes before its scheduled touch-down.
All seven spacecraft are still on the Moon; none of the missions included returning them to Earth. Some parts of Surveyor 3 were returned to Earth by the crew of Apollo 12, which landed near it in 1969. The camera from this craft is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter
The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface, they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit.
All five missions were successful, and 99% of the Moon was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters or better. The first three missions were dedicated to imaging 20 potential manned lunar landing sites, selected based on Earth-based observations. These were flown at low inclination orbits. The fourth and fifth missions were devoted to broader scientific objectives and were flown in high-altitude polar orbits... All Lunar Orbiter craft were launched by an Atlas-Agena D launch vehicle.
The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. Both lenses, a 610 mm narrow angle high resolution (HR) lens and an 80 mm wide angle medium resolution (MR) lens, placed their frame exposures on a single roll of 70 mm film... The film was then processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth.
During the Lunar Orbiter missions, the first pictures of Earth as a whole were taken...
- published: 19 Aug 2015
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1966 NASA Highlights: "Aeronautics and Space Report" Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter, Gemini, X-15...
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- Duration: 14:33
- Updated: 30 Nov 2012
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"Surveyor lands on the Moon, Lunar Orbiter, weather satellites, Orbiting Geophysical Observatory, Pi...
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"Surveyor lands on the Moon, Lunar Orbiter, weather satellites, Orbiting Geophysical Observatory, Pioneer, sounding rockets, solar eclipse, X-15, lifting bodies, solid rockets, nuclear powered engines, Project Gemini ends, and Apollo-Saturn."
Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_Program
The Surveyor Program was a NASA program that, from 1966 through 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon. Its primary goal was to demonstrate the feasibility of soft landings on the Moon. The mission called for the craft to travel directly to the Moon on an impact trajectory, on a journey that lasted 63 to 65 hours, and ended with a deceleration of just over three minutes to a soft-landing. The program was implemented by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to prepare for the Apollo program...
Five of the Surveyor craft successfully soft-landed on the moon, including the first one. The other two failed: Surveyor 2 crashed at high velocity after a failed mid-course correction, and Surveyor 4 was lost to contact (possibly exploding) 2.5 minutes before its scheduled touch-down.
All seven spacecraft are still on the Moon; none of the missions included returning them to Earth. Some parts of Surveyor 3 were returned to Earth by the crew of Apollo 12, which landed near it in 1969. The camera from this craft is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_program
The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface, they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit.
All five missions were successful, and 99% of the Moon was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters or better... All Lunar Orbiter craft were launched by an Atlas-Agena D launch vehicle.
The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. Both lenses, a 610 mm narrow angle high resolution (HR) lens and an 80 mm wide angle medium resolution (MR) lens, placed their frame exposures on a single roll of 70 mm film... The film was then processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth.
During the Lunar Orbiter missions, the first pictures of Earth as a whole were taken, beginning with Earth-rise over the lunar surface by Lunar Orbiter 1 in August, 1966...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiting_Geophysical_Observatory
Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO) refers to the six satellites launched by the United States that were in use from September 1964 to 1972, designed to study the Earth's magnetosphere. The satellites successfully studied the interactions between the Earth and the Sun, despite a number of technical problems. Each satellite had 20 to 25 instruments. OGO 1, OGO 3, and OGO 5 were in equatorial orbits; OGO 2, OGO 4, and OGO 6 were in lower polar orbits...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA
NERVA is an acronym for Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application, a joint program of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and NASA managed by the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office (SNPO) until both the program and the office ended at the end of 1972.
NERVA demonstrated that nuclear thermal rocket engines were a feasible and reliable tool for space exploration, and at the end of 1968 SNPO certified that the latest NERVA engine, the NRX/XE, met the requirements for a manned Mars mission. Although NERVA engines were built and tested as much as possible with flight-certified components and the engine was deemed ready for integration into a spacecraft, much of the U.S. space program was cancelled by the Nixon Administration before a manned visit to Mars could take place.
NERVA was considered by the AEC, SNPO and NASA to be a highly successful program; it met or exceeded its program goals. Its principal objective was to "establish a technology base for nuclear rocket engine systems to be utilized in the design and development of propulsion systems for space mission application".[1] Virtually all space mission plans that use nuclear thermal rockets use derivative designs from the NERVA NRX or Pewee...
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"Surveyor lands on the Moon, Lunar Orbiter, weather satellites, Orbiting Geophysical Observatory, Pioneer, sounding rockets, solar eclipse, X-15, lifting bodies, solid rockets, nuclear powered engines, Project Gemini ends, and Apollo-Saturn."
Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_Program
The Surveyor Program was a NASA program that, from 1966 through 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon. Its primary goal was to demonstrate the feasibility of soft landings on the Moon. The mission called for the craft to travel directly to the Moon on an impact trajectory, on a journey that lasted 63 to 65 hours, and ended with a deceleration of just over three minutes to a soft-landing. The program was implemented by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to prepare for the Apollo program...
Five of the Surveyor craft successfully soft-landed on the moon, including the first one. The other two failed: Surveyor 2 crashed at high velocity after a failed mid-course correction, and Surveyor 4 was lost to contact (possibly exploding) 2.5 minutes before its scheduled touch-down.
All seven spacecraft are still on the Moon; none of the missions included returning them to Earth. Some parts of Surveyor 3 were returned to Earth by the crew of Apollo 12, which landed near it in 1969. The camera from this craft is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_program
The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface, they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit.
All five missions were successful, and 99% of the Moon was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters or better... All Lunar Orbiter craft were launched by an Atlas-Agena D launch vehicle.
The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. Both lenses, a 610 mm narrow angle high resolution (HR) lens and an 80 mm wide angle medium resolution (MR) lens, placed their frame exposures on a single roll of 70 mm film... The film was then processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth.
During the Lunar Orbiter missions, the first pictures of Earth as a whole were taken, beginning with Earth-rise over the lunar surface by Lunar Orbiter 1 in August, 1966...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiting_Geophysical_Observatory
Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO) refers to the six satellites launched by the United States that were in use from September 1964 to 1972, designed to study the Earth's magnetosphere. The satellites successfully studied the interactions between the Earth and the Sun, despite a number of technical problems. Each satellite had 20 to 25 instruments. OGO 1, OGO 3, and OGO 5 were in equatorial orbits; OGO 2, OGO 4, and OGO 6 were in lower polar orbits...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA
NERVA is an acronym for Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application, a joint program of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and NASA managed by the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office (SNPO) until both the program and the office ended at the end of 1972.
NERVA demonstrated that nuclear thermal rocket engines were a feasible and reliable tool for space exploration, and at the end of 1968 SNPO certified that the latest NERVA engine, the NRX/XE, met the requirements for a manned Mars mission. Although NERVA engines were built and tested as much as possible with flight-certified components and the engine was deemed ready for integration into a spacecraft, much of the U.S. space program was cancelled by the Nixon Administration before a manned visit to Mars could take place.
NERVA was considered by the AEC, SNPO and NASA to be a highly successful program; it met or exceeded its program goals. Its principal objective was to "establish a technology base for nuclear rocket engine systems to be utilized in the design and development of propulsion systems for space mission application".[1] Virtually all space mission plans that use nuclear thermal rockets use derivative designs from the NERVA NRX or Pewee...
- published: 30 Nov 2012
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Lunar Orbiter: "Close Up of the Moon, A Look at Lunar Orbiter" circa 1967 NASA
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- Duration: 10:14
- Updated: 14 Jun 2014
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An Apollo-era overview of the Lunar Orbiter program, spacecraft and mission. Describes the spacecraf...
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/nasa_news.html
An Apollo-era overview of the Lunar Orbiter program, spacecraft and mission. Describes the spacecraft trajectory and orbit, and how the Lunar Orbiter camera system works. Also mentions Ranger and Surveyor.
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_program
The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface, they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit.
All five missions were successful, and 99% of the Moon was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters (200 ft) or better. The first three missions were dedicated to imaging 20 potential manned lunar landing sites, selected based on Earth-based observations. These were flown at low inclination orbits. The fourth and fifth missions were devoted to broader scientific objectives and were flown in high-altitude polar orbits. Lunar Orbiter 4 photographed the entire nearside and 9% of the far side, and Lunar Orbiter 5 completed the far side coverage and acquired medium (20 m (66 ft)) and high (2 m (6 ft 7 in)) resolution images of 36 pre-selected areas. All Lunar Orbiter craft were launched by an Atlas-Agena D launch vehicle.
The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. Both lenses, a 610 mm (24 in) narrow angle high resolution (HR) lens and an 80 mm (3.1 in) wide angle medium resolution (MR) lens, placed their frame exposures on a single roll of 70 mm film. The axes of the two cameras were coincident so the area imaged in the HR frames were centered within the MR frame areas. The film was moved during exposure to compensate for the spacecraft velocity, which was estimated by an electro-optical sensor. The film was then processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth.
During the Lunar Orbiter missions, the first pictures of Earth as a whole were taken, beginning with Earth-rise over the lunar surface by Lunar Orbiter 1 in August, 1966. The first full picture of the whole Earth was taken by Lunar Orbiter 5 on 8 August 1967. A second photo of the whole Earth was taken by Lunar Orbiter 5 on 10 November 1967...
Backup
As a backup for Lunar Orbiter, NASA and NRO cooperated on the Lunar Mapping and Survey System (LM&SS;), based on the KH-7 reconnaissance satellite. Replacing the Lunar Module in the Saturn V, Apollo astronauts would operate LM&SS; remotely in lunar orbit. NASA canceled the project in the summer of 1967 after Lunar Orbiter's success...
The photographic system was provided by Eastman Kodak and derived from a system, provided by the National Reconnaissance Office, designed for the U-2 and SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft. The camera used two lenses to simultaneously expose a wide-angle and a high-resolution image on the same film. The wide-angle, medium resolution mode used an 80 mm F 2.8 Xenotar lens manufactured by Schneider Kreuznach, Germany. The high-resolution mode used a 610 mm F 5.6 Panoramic lens manufactured by the Pacific Optical Company. The film was developed on-orbit, and then scanned by a photomultiplier for transmission to Earth...
The Lunar Orbiter program was managed by NASA Langley Research Center at a total cost of roughly $200 million...
In 2000, the Astrogeology Research Program of the US Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona was funded by NASA (as part of the Lunar Orbiter Digitization Project) to scan at 25 micrometre resolution archival LO positive film strips that were produced from the original data. The goal was to produce a global mosaic of the Moon...
In 2007, the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) began a process to convert the Lunar Orbiter Images directly from the original Ampex FR-900 analog video recordings of the spacecraft data to digital image format, a change which provided vastly improved resolution over the original images released in the 1960s. The first of these restored images were released in late 2008...
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An Apollo-era overview of the Lunar Orbiter program, spacecraft and mission. Describes the spacecraft trajectory and orbit, and how the Lunar Orbiter camera system works. Also mentions Ranger and Surveyor.
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_program
The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface, they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit.
All five missions were successful, and 99% of the Moon was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters (200 ft) or better. The first three missions were dedicated to imaging 20 potential manned lunar landing sites, selected based on Earth-based observations. These were flown at low inclination orbits. The fourth and fifth missions were devoted to broader scientific objectives and were flown in high-altitude polar orbits. Lunar Orbiter 4 photographed the entire nearside and 9% of the far side, and Lunar Orbiter 5 completed the far side coverage and acquired medium (20 m (66 ft)) and high (2 m (6 ft 7 in)) resolution images of 36 pre-selected areas. All Lunar Orbiter craft were launched by an Atlas-Agena D launch vehicle.
The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. Both lenses, a 610 mm (24 in) narrow angle high resolution (HR) lens and an 80 mm (3.1 in) wide angle medium resolution (MR) lens, placed their frame exposures on a single roll of 70 mm film. The axes of the two cameras were coincident so the area imaged in the HR frames were centered within the MR frame areas. The film was moved during exposure to compensate for the spacecraft velocity, which was estimated by an electro-optical sensor. The film was then processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth.
During the Lunar Orbiter missions, the first pictures of Earth as a whole were taken, beginning with Earth-rise over the lunar surface by Lunar Orbiter 1 in August, 1966. The first full picture of the whole Earth was taken by Lunar Orbiter 5 on 8 August 1967. A second photo of the whole Earth was taken by Lunar Orbiter 5 on 10 November 1967...
Backup
As a backup for Lunar Orbiter, NASA and NRO cooperated on the Lunar Mapping and Survey System (LM&SS;), based on the KH-7 reconnaissance satellite. Replacing the Lunar Module in the Saturn V, Apollo astronauts would operate LM&SS; remotely in lunar orbit. NASA canceled the project in the summer of 1967 after Lunar Orbiter's success...
The photographic system was provided by Eastman Kodak and derived from a system, provided by the National Reconnaissance Office, designed for the U-2 and SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft. The camera used two lenses to simultaneously expose a wide-angle and a high-resolution image on the same film. The wide-angle, medium resolution mode used an 80 mm F 2.8 Xenotar lens manufactured by Schneider Kreuznach, Germany. The high-resolution mode used a 610 mm F 5.6 Panoramic lens manufactured by the Pacific Optical Company. The film was developed on-orbit, and then scanned by a photomultiplier for transmission to Earth...
The Lunar Orbiter program was managed by NASA Langley Research Center at a total cost of roughly $200 million...
In 2000, the Astrogeology Research Program of the US Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona was funded by NASA (as part of the Lunar Orbiter Digitization Project) to scan at 25 micrometre resolution archival LO positive film strips that were produced from the original data. The goal was to produce a global mosaic of the Moon...
In 2007, the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) began a process to convert the Lunar Orbiter Images directly from the original Ampex FR-900 analog video recordings of the spacecraft data to digital image format, a change which provided vastly improved resolution over the original images released in the 1960s. The first of these restored images were released in late 2008...
- published: 14 Jun 2014
- views: 3697
Video Replay: The Moon - Incredible Lunar Views From The Japanese SELENE Orbiter - Earthrise
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- Duration: 0:00
- Updated: 24 Nov 2016
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Take a journey across the surface of the moon. See the earth rise and set from the lunar surface.
This video was recorded by the SELENE Lunar Orbiter - images ...
Take a journey across the surface of the moon. See the earth rise and set from the lunar surface.
This video was recorded by the SELENE Lunar Orbiter - images are copyright JAXA / NHK
SELENE , better known in Japan by its nickname Kaguya, was the second Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft following the Hiten probe]
Produced by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) and the National Space Development Agency (NASDA), the spacecraft was launched on September 14, 2007. After successfully orbiting the Moon for a year and eight months, the main orbiter was instructed to impact on the lunar surface near the crater Gill on June 10, 2009.[2]
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Take a journey across the surface of the moon. See the earth rise and set from the lunar surface.
This video was recorded by the SELENE Lunar Orbiter - images are copyright JAXA / NHK
SELENE , better known in Japan by its nickname Kaguya, was the second Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft following the Hiten probe]
Produced by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) and the National Space Development Agency (NASDA), the spacecraft was launched on September 14, 2007. After successfully orbiting the Moon for a year and eight months, the main orbiter was instructed to impact on the lunar surface near the crater Gill on June 10, 2009.[2]
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- published: 24 Nov 2016
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Final Photos Taken From Doomed Lunar Orbiter | Video
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- Duration: 1:52
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
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Three days prior to its impact into a mountain on the moon, one of the twin spacecraft (named Ebb) from NASA's GRAIL mission took some photos from orbit. The sp...
Three days prior to its impact into a mountain on the moon, one of the twin spacecraft (named Ebb) from NASA's GRAIL mission took some photos from orbit. The spacecraft was about 6 miles above the lunar surface when the photos were take.
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Three days prior to its impact into a mountain on the moon, one of the twin spacecraft (named Ebb) from NASA's GRAIL mission took some photos from orbit. The spacecraft was about 6 miles above the lunar surface when the photos were take.
- published: 13 Jan 2013
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LRO Revisits Apollo Landing Sites
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- Duration: 3:40
- Updated: 06 Sep 2011
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, LRO, has captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of where three Apollo missions were conducted on the moon's sur...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, LRO, has captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of where three Apollo missions were conducted on the moon's surface. The pictures of the Apollo 17, Apollo 14, and Apollo 12 landing sites were taken while LRO was in what's referred to as a "dipping orbit," where the spacecraft was roughly 15 miles above the surface. They reveal the twists and turns of the paths made when the missions' six astronauts explored these areas.
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, LRO, has captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of where three Apollo missions were conducted on the moon's surface. The pictures of the Apollo 17, Apollo 14, and Apollo 12 landing sites were taken while LRO was in what's referred to as a "dipping orbit," where the spacecraft was roughly 15 miles above the surface. They reveal the twists and turns of the paths made when the missions' six astronauts explored these areas.
- published: 06 Sep 2011
- views: 79908
Enhanced Lunar Orbiter II Image of Copernicus
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- Duration: 0:04
- Updated: 04 Sep 2011
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- published: 04 Sep 2011
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WHY NASA NEVER RETURNED TO THE MOON? PART 2 (APRIL 2011)
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- Duration: 9:06
- Updated: 27 Apr 2011
- views: 10659
The most recently launched lunar orbiter is China's Chang'e 2, which was launched in early October 2010. China is also planning to land motorized rovers and col...
The most recently launched lunar orbiter is China's Chang'e 2, which was launched in early October 2010. China is also planning to land motorized rovers and collect samples in the Chang'e 3 and Chang'e 4 missions and return lunar soil samples by 2018.[44]
Russia's Luna-Glob 1 expected to be launched in 2012. In 2007 the head of the Russian Space Agency announced plans to send cosmonauts to the Moon by 2025 and establish a permanent manned base there in 2027-2032.[45]
ISRO, the Indian National Space agency, is planning a second version of Chandrayaan named Chandrayaan 2. According to former ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair, "The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) hopes to land two motorised rovers - one Indian and another Russian - on the Moon in 2013, as a part of its second Chandrayaan mission. The rover will be designed to move on wheels on the lunar surface, pick up samples of soil or rocks, do on-site chemical analysis and send the data to the mother-spacecraft Chandrayaan II, which will be orbiting above. Chandrayaan II will transmit the data to Earth." The payloads have already been finalized.[46][47] ISRO has mentioned that due to weight restrictions it will not be carrying any overseas payloads on this mission. The lander weight is projected to be 1,250 kg, and the spacecraft will be launched by the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle.
The Google Lunar X Prize competition offers a $20 million award for the first privately funded team to land a robotic probe on the Moon. Like the Ansari X Prize before it, the competition aims to advance the state of the art in private space exploration.
Some people have insisted that the Apollo Moon landings were a hoax. These accusations flourish in part because predictions by enthusiasts that Moon landings would become commonplace have not yet come to pass. Some claims can be empirically discredited by three retroreflector arrays left on the Moon by Apollo 11,[49] 14 and 15. With new technology, it is possible for anyone on Earth with an appropriate laser and telescope system to bounce laser beams off these devices, verifying deployment of the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment at historically documented Apollo Moon landing sites. This evidence indicates the deployment of equipment which was constructed on Earth and successfully transported to the surface of the Moon. In addition, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, in August 2009, began to send back high resolution photos showing the Apollo landing sites.
A total of twelve people have landed on the Moon. This was accomplished with two US pilot-astronauts flying a Lunar Module on each of six NASA missions across a 41-month time span starting on 21 July 1969 UTC, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11 (with Armstrong being first to set foot on the surface), and ending on 14 December 1972 UTC with Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt on Apollo 17 (with Cernan being the last to step off the lunar surface). All Apollo lunar missions had a third crew member who remained onboard the Command Module. The last three missions had a rover for increased mobility.
https://wn.com/Why_Nasa_Never_Returned_To_The_Moon_Part_2_(April_2011)
The most recently launched lunar orbiter is China's Chang'e 2, which was launched in early October 2010. China is also planning to land motorized rovers and collect samples in the Chang'e 3 and Chang'e 4 missions and return lunar soil samples by 2018.[44]
Russia's Luna-Glob 1 expected to be launched in 2012. In 2007 the head of the Russian Space Agency announced plans to send cosmonauts to the Moon by 2025 and establish a permanent manned base there in 2027-2032.[45]
ISRO, the Indian National Space agency, is planning a second version of Chandrayaan named Chandrayaan 2. According to former ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair, "The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) hopes to land two motorised rovers - one Indian and another Russian - on the Moon in 2013, as a part of its second Chandrayaan mission. The rover will be designed to move on wheels on the lunar surface, pick up samples of soil or rocks, do on-site chemical analysis and send the data to the mother-spacecraft Chandrayaan II, which will be orbiting above. Chandrayaan II will transmit the data to Earth." The payloads have already been finalized.[46][47] ISRO has mentioned that due to weight restrictions it will not be carrying any overseas payloads on this mission. The lander weight is projected to be 1,250 kg, and the spacecraft will be launched by the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle.
The Google Lunar X Prize competition offers a $20 million award for the first privately funded team to land a robotic probe on the Moon. Like the Ansari X Prize before it, the competition aims to advance the state of the art in private space exploration.
Some people have insisted that the Apollo Moon landings were a hoax. These accusations flourish in part because predictions by enthusiasts that Moon landings would become commonplace have not yet come to pass. Some claims can be empirically discredited by three retroreflector arrays left on the Moon by Apollo 11,[49] 14 and 15. With new technology, it is possible for anyone on Earth with an appropriate laser and telescope system to bounce laser beams off these devices, verifying deployment of the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment at historically documented Apollo Moon landing sites. This evidence indicates the deployment of equipment which was constructed on Earth and successfully transported to the surface of the Moon. In addition, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, in August 2009, began to send back high resolution photos showing the Apollo landing sites.
A total of twelve people have landed on the Moon. This was accomplished with two US pilot-astronauts flying a Lunar Module on each of six NASA missions across a 41-month time span starting on 21 July 1969 UTC, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11 (with Armstrong being first to set foot on the surface), and ending on 14 December 1972 UTC with Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt on Apollo 17 (with Cernan being the last to step off the lunar surface). All Apollo lunar missions had a third crew member who remained onboard the Command Module. The last three missions had a rover for increased mobility.
- published: 27 Apr 2011
- views: 10659
Lunar Orbiter 1 Arrives at Moon 1966 Universal Newsreel August 15, 1966
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:04
- Updated: 30 Nov 2016
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Apollo Spacecraft & Lunar Exploration Testing playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7DDA54A0628C6392
more at: http://scitech.quickfound.net
"AROUN...
Apollo Spacecraft & Lunar Exploration Testing playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7DDA54A0628C6392
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"AROUND THE MOON: A preview of actualities and simulations of the adventures around the Moon of the Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft. The facts of how it achieved its perfect orbit and what it did when it began its circling. The whole story of the Moon orbit mechanics and how the pictures taken are transmitted back to earth."
From Universal Newsreel Volume 39 Release 66
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
LUNAR ORBITER PHOTO ATLAS http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/
NSSDC Lunar Orbiter Links:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/lunarorb.html
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_1
The Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic (unmanned) spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon...
The spacecraft was placed in an Earth parking orbit on August 10, 1966, at 19:31 UTC. The trans-lunar injection burn occurred at 20:04 UTC...
Lunar Orbiter 1 was injected into an elliptical near-equatorial lunar orbit 92.1 hours after launch... The spacecraft acquired photographic data from August 18 to 29, 1966, and readout occurred through September 14, 1966...
from The Lunar Orbiter (1965)
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19650008849_1965008849.pdf
The Lunar Orbiter has as its prime objective the photographic coverage of selected portions of the lunar surface. Although the Ranger Program has provided some extremely valuable high resolution lunar photographs, the coverage is too limited t o provide sufficient information for Apollo. The Lunar Orbiter coverage will be secured with sufficient resolution and will cover enough area to allow the selection of landing sites for Apollo, and in conjunction with the Surveyor Spacecraft will provide necessary information for the safe landing of Apollo. The spacecraft has been designed around its photographic payload, and does not carry many subsidiary experiments; however, it will provide information regarding the lunar gravitational , and a limited amount of information regarding micrometeorites and energetic particles...
It is planned that the first Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft will be launched in 1966, using an Atlas-Agena vehicle. The launch technique and procedures will be very similar to those used for the Ranger Spacecraft, except for the launch windows and the targeting required for proper lunar orbits. These are unique for the Orbiter...
The spacecraft camera... contains two f15.6 lenses, a 24-inch focal length high-resolution lens, and a 3-inch focal length lens used for moderate resolution stereo coverage. Simultaneous exposures are made...
...In the flight configuration all of the main spacecraft structure above the equipment mounting deck is covered with a highly reflective shroud of aluminum coated mylar. During launch, the solar panels are folded under the spacecraft base and the antennas held against the side of the structure. The spacecraft is 5 1/2 feet high and 5 feet in diameter, excluding the solar panels and antennas. When deployed, the span along the antenna booms is l& feet and about 12 feet across the solar panels...
https://wn.com/Lunar_Orbiter_1_Arrives_At_Moon_1966_Universal_Newsreel_August_15,_1966
Apollo Spacecraft & Lunar Exploration Testing playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7DDA54A0628C6392
more at: http://scitech.quickfound.net
"AROUND THE MOON: A preview of actualities and simulations of the adventures around the Moon of the Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft. The facts of how it achieved its perfect orbit and what it did when it began its circling. The whole story of the Moon orbit mechanics and how the pictures taken are transmitted back to earth."
From Universal Newsreel Volume 39 Release 66
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
LUNAR ORBITER PHOTO ATLAS http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/
NSSDC Lunar Orbiter Links:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/lunarorb.html
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_1
The Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic (unmanned) spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon...
The spacecraft was placed in an Earth parking orbit on August 10, 1966, at 19:31 UTC. The trans-lunar injection burn occurred at 20:04 UTC...
Lunar Orbiter 1 was injected into an elliptical near-equatorial lunar orbit 92.1 hours after launch... The spacecraft acquired photographic data from August 18 to 29, 1966, and readout occurred through September 14, 1966...
from The Lunar Orbiter (1965)
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19650008849_1965008849.pdf
The Lunar Orbiter has as its prime objective the photographic coverage of selected portions of the lunar surface. Although the Ranger Program has provided some extremely valuable high resolution lunar photographs, the coverage is too limited t o provide sufficient information for Apollo. The Lunar Orbiter coverage will be secured with sufficient resolution and will cover enough area to allow the selection of landing sites for Apollo, and in conjunction with the Surveyor Spacecraft will provide necessary information for the safe landing of Apollo. The spacecraft has been designed around its photographic payload, and does not carry many subsidiary experiments; however, it will provide information regarding the lunar gravitational , and a limited amount of information regarding micrometeorites and energetic particles...
It is planned that the first Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft will be launched in 1966, using an Atlas-Agena vehicle. The launch technique and procedures will be very similar to those used for the Ranger Spacecraft, except for the launch windows and the targeting required for proper lunar orbits. These are unique for the Orbiter...
The spacecraft camera... contains two f15.6 lenses, a 24-inch focal length high-resolution lens, and a 3-inch focal length lens used for moderate resolution stereo coverage. Simultaneous exposures are made...
...In the flight configuration all of the main spacecraft structure above the equipment mounting deck is covered with a highly reflective shroud of aluminum coated mylar. During launch, the solar panels are folded under the spacecraft base and the antennas held against the side of the structure. The spacecraft is 5 1/2 feet high and 5 feet in diameter, excluding the solar panels and antennas. When deployed, the span along the antenna booms is l& feet and about 12 feet across the solar panels...
- published: 30 Nov 2016
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Lunar Orbiter 1: Around The Moon - 1966 Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:48
- Updated: 10 Apr 2017
- views: 281
Universal Newsreel report from August 1966. Title: "Around The Moon. Orbiter camera ready to film landing sites".
The Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic (unmanned) spacec...
Universal Newsreel report from August 1966. Title: "Around The Moon. Orbiter camera ready to film landing sites".
The Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic (unmanned) spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon. It was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. It was also equipped to collect selenodetic, radiation intensity, and micrometeoroid impact data.
The spacecraft was placed in an Earth parking orbit on August 10, 1966, at 19:31 UTC. The trans-lunar injection burn occurred at 20:04 UTC. The spacecraft experienced a temporary failure of the Canopus star tracker (probably due to stray sunlight) and overheating during its cruise to the Moon. The star tracker problem was resolved by navigating using the Moon as a reference, and the overheating was abated by orienting the spacecraft 36 degrees off-Sun to lower the temperature.
Lunar Orbiter 1 was injected into an elliptical near-equatorial lunar orbit 92.1 hours after launch. The initial orbit was 189.1 by 1,866.8 kilometers (117.5 mi × 1,160.0 mi) and had a period of 3 hours 37 minutes and an inclination of 12.2 degrees. On August 21, perilune was dropped to 58 km (36 mi) and on August 25 to 40.5 km (25.2 mi). The spacecraft acquired photographic data from August 18 to 29, 1966, and readout occurred through September 14, 1966.
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Universal Newsreel report from August 1966. Title: "Around The Moon. Orbiter camera ready to film landing sites".
The Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic (unmanned) spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon. It was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. It was also equipped to collect selenodetic, radiation intensity, and micrometeoroid impact data.
The spacecraft was placed in an Earth parking orbit on August 10, 1966, at 19:31 UTC. The trans-lunar injection burn occurred at 20:04 UTC. The spacecraft experienced a temporary failure of the Canopus star tracker (probably due to stray sunlight) and overheating during its cruise to the Moon. The star tracker problem was resolved by navigating using the Moon as a reference, and the overheating was abated by orienting the spacecraft 36 degrees off-Sun to lower the temperature.
Lunar Orbiter 1 was injected into an elliptical near-equatorial lunar orbit 92.1 hours after launch. The initial orbit was 189.1 by 1,866.8 kilometers (117.5 mi × 1,160.0 mi) and had a period of 3 hours 37 minutes and an inclination of 12.2 degrees. On August 21, perilune was dropped to 58 km (36 mi) and on August 25 to 40.5 km (25.2 mi). The spacecraft acquired photographic data from August 18 to 29, 1966, and readout occurred through September 14, 1966.
WDTVLIVE42 - Transport, technology, and general interest movies from the past - newsreels, documentaries & publicity films from my archives.
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- published: 10 Apr 2017
- views: 281
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Lunar Photography: "Assignment: Shoot the Moon" 1967 NASA; Ranger, Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html "National Aeronautics and Space Administration... This film summarizes the exploration of the Moon conducted through unmanned Ranger, Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter spacecraft, and shows how such detailed data and photography contributed to the first manned flights to the Moon. The film describes the complexities of closeup photography of the Moon, and includes good views of craters, mountain ranges and other lunar terrain." NASA film HQ-167 Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound. Public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack w...
published: 19 Aug 2015 -
1966 NASA Highlights: "Aeronautics and Space Report" Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter, Gemini, X-15...
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/nasa_news.html "Surveyor lands on the Moon, Lunar Orbiter, weather satellites, Orbiting Geophysical Observatory, Pioneer, sounding rockets, solar eclipse, X-15, lifting bodies, solid rockets, nuclear powered engines, Project Gemini ends, and Apollo-Saturn." Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_Program The Surveyor Program was a NASA program that, from 1966 through 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the...
published: 30 Nov 2012 -
Lunar Orbiter: "Close Up of the Moon, A Look at Lunar Orbiter" circa 1967 NASA
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/nasa_news.html An Apollo-era overview of the Lunar Orbiter program, spacecraft and mission. Describes the spacecraft trajectory and orbit, and how the Lunar Orbiter camera system works. Also mentions Ranger and Surveyor. Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_program The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter m...
published: 14 Jun 2014 -
Video Replay: The Moon - Incredible Lunar Views From The Japanese SELENE Orbiter - Earthrise
Take a journey across the surface of the moon. See the earth rise and set from the lunar surface. This video was recorded by the SELENE Lunar Orbiter - images are copyright JAXA / NHK SELENE , better known in Japan by its nickname Kaguya, was the second Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft following the Hiten probe] Produced by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) and the National Space Development Agency (NASDA), the spacecraft was launched on September 14, 2007. After successfully orbiting the Moon for a year and eight months, the main orbiter was instructed to impact on the lunar surface near the crater Gill on June 10, 2009.[2] Subscribe For More Videos Like This: http://www.youtube.com/user/ouramazingspace?sub_confirmation=1 See my latest videos : https://www.you...
published: 24 Nov 2016 -
Final Photos Taken From Doomed Lunar Orbiter | Video
Three days prior to its impact into a mountain on the moon, one of the twin spacecraft (named Ebb) from NASA's GRAIL mission took some photos from orbit. The spacecraft was about 6 miles above the lunar surface when the photos were take.
published: 13 Jan 2013 -
LRO Revisits Apollo Landing Sites
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, LRO, has captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of where three Apollo missions were conducted on the moon's surface. The pictures of the Apollo 17, Apollo 14, and Apollo 12 landing sites were taken while LRO was in what's referred to as a "dipping orbit," where the spacecraft was roughly 15 miles above the surface. They reveal the twists and turns of the paths made when the missions' six astronauts explored these areas.
published: 06 Sep 2011 -
Enhanced Lunar Orbiter II Image of Copernicus
published: 04 Sep 2011 -
WHY NASA NEVER RETURNED TO THE MOON? PART 2 (APRIL 2011)
The most recently launched lunar orbiter is China's Chang'e 2, which was launched in early October 2010. China is also planning to land motorized rovers and collect samples in the Chang'e 3 and Chang'e 4 missions and return lunar soil samples by 2018.[44] Russia's Luna-Glob 1 expected to be launched in 2012. In 2007 the head of the Russian Space Agency announced plans to send cosmonauts to the Moon by 2025 and establish a permanent manned base there in 2027-2032.[45] ISRO, the Indian National Space agency, is planning a second version of Chandrayaan named Chandrayaan 2. According to former ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair, "The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) hopes to land two motorised rovers - one Indian and another Russian - on the Moon in 2013, as a part of its second Chandra...
published: 27 Apr 2011 -
Lunar Orbiter 1 Arrives at Moon 1966 Universal Newsreel August 15, 1966
Apollo Spacecraft & Lunar Exploration Testing playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7DDA54A0628C6392 more at: http://scitech.quickfound.net "AROUND THE MOON: A preview of actualities and simulations of the adventures around the Moon of the Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft. The facts of how it achieved its perfect orbit and what it did when it began its circling. The whole story of the Moon orbit mechanics and how the pictures taken are transmitted back to earth." From Universal Newsreel Volume 39 Release 66 Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise ...
published: 30 Nov 2016 -
Lunar Orbiter 1: Around The Moon - 1966 Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42
Universal Newsreel report from August 1966. Title: "Around The Moon. Orbiter camera ready to film landing sites". The Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic (unmanned) spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon. It was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. It was also equipped to collect selenodetic, radiation intensity, and micrometeoroid impact data. The spacecraft was placed in an Earth parking orbit on August 10, 1966, at 19:31 UTC. The trans-lunar injection burn occurred at 20:04 UTC. The spacecraft experienced a temporary failure of the Canopus star tracker (probably due to stray sunlight) and overheating during its cruise ...
published: 10 Apr 2017
Lunar Photography: "Assignment: Shoot the Moon" 1967 NASA; Ranger, Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 25:27
- Updated: 19 Aug 2015
- views: 2458
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html
"National Aeronautics and Space Administration... This film summarizes the exploration of the M...
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html
"National Aeronautics and Space Administration... This film summarizes the exploration of the Moon conducted through unmanned Ranger, Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter spacecraft, and shows how such detailed data and photography contributed to the first manned flights to the Moon. The film describes the complexities of closeup photography of the Moon, and includes good views of craters, mountain ranges and other lunar terrain."
NASA film HQ-167
Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound.
Public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_program
The Ranger program was a series of unmanned space missions by the United States in the 1960s whose objective was to obtain the first close-up images of the surface of the Moon. The Ranger spacecraft were designed to take images of the lunar surface, returning those images until they were destroyed upon impact. A series of mishaps, however, led to the failure of the first six flights. At one point, the program was called "shoot and hope". Congress launched an investigation into "problems of management" at NASA Headquarters and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. After reorganizing the organization twice, Ranger 7 successfully returned images in July 1964, followed by two more successful missions.
Ranger was originally designed, beginning in 1959, in three distinct phases, called "blocks". Each block had different mission objectives and progressively more advanced system design. The JPL mission designers planned multiple launches in each block, to maximize the engineering experience and scientific value of the mission and to assure at least one successful flight. Total research, development, launch, and support costs for the Ranger series of spacecraft (Rangers 1 through 9) was approximately $170 million.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_Program
The Surveyor Program was a NASA program that, from 1966 through 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon. Its primary goal was to demonstrate the feasibility of soft landings on the Moon. The mission called for the craft to travel directly to the moon on an impact trajectory, on a journey that lasted 63 to 65 hours, and ended with a deceleration of just over three minutes to a soft-landing. The program was implemented by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to prepare for the Apollo program. The total cost of the Surveyor program was officially $469 million dollars.
Five of the Surveyor craft successfully soft-landed on the moon, including the first one. The other two failed: Surveyor 2 crashed at high velocity after a failed mid-course correction, and Surveyor 4 was lost to contact (possibly exploding) 2.5 minutes before its scheduled touch-down.
All seven spacecraft are still on the Moon; none of the missions included returning them to Earth. Some parts of Surveyor 3 were returned to Earth by the crew of Apollo 12, which landed near it in 1969. The camera from this craft is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter
The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface, they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit.
All five missions were successful, and 99% of the Moon was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters or better. The first three missions were dedicated to imaging 20 potential manned lunar landing sites, selected based on Earth-based observations. These were flown at low inclination orbits. The fourth and fifth missions were devoted to broader scientific objectives and were flown in high-altitude polar orbits... All Lunar Orbiter craft were launched by an Atlas-Agena D launch vehicle.
The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. Both lenses, a 610 mm narrow angle high resolution (HR) lens and an 80 mm wide angle medium resolution (MR) lens, placed their frame exposures on a single roll of 70 mm film... The film was then processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth.
During the Lunar Orbiter missions, the first pictures of Earth as a whole were taken...
https://wn.com/Lunar_Photography_Assignment_Shoot_The_Moon_1967_Nasa_Ranger,_Surveyor,_Lunar_Orbiter
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html
"National Aeronautics and Space Administration... This film summarizes the exploration of the Moon conducted through unmanned Ranger, Surveyor and Lunar Orbiter spacecraft, and shows how such detailed data and photography contributed to the first manned flights to the Moon. The film describes the complexities of closeup photography of the Moon, and includes good views of craters, mountain ranges and other lunar terrain."
NASA film HQ-167
Reupload of a previously uploaded film, in one piece instead of multiple parts, and with improved video & sound.
Public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_program
The Ranger program was a series of unmanned space missions by the United States in the 1960s whose objective was to obtain the first close-up images of the surface of the Moon. The Ranger spacecraft were designed to take images of the lunar surface, returning those images until they were destroyed upon impact. A series of mishaps, however, led to the failure of the first six flights. At one point, the program was called "shoot and hope". Congress launched an investigation into "problems of management" at NASA Headquarters and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. After reorganizing the organization twice, Ranger 7 successfully returned images in July 1964, followed by two more successful missions.
Ranger was originally designed, beginning in 1959, in three distinct phases, called "blocks". Each block had different mission objectives and progressively more advanced system design. The JPL mission designers planned multiple launches in each block, to maximize the engineering experience and scientific value of the mission and to assure at least one successful flight. Total research, development, launch, and support costs for the Ranger series of spacecraft (Rangers 1 through 9) was approximately $170 million.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_Program
The Surveyor Program was a NASA program that, from 1966 through 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon. Its primary goal was to demonstrate the feasibility of soft landings on the Moon. The mission called for the craft to travel directly to the moon on an impact trajectory, on a journey that lasted 63 to 65 hours, and ended with a deceleration of just over three minutes to a soft-landing. The program was implemented by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to prepare for the Apollo program. The total cost of the Surveyor program was officially $469 million dollars.
Five of the Surveyor craft successfully soft-landed on the moon, including the first one. The other two failed: Surveyor 2 crashed at high velocity after a failed mid-course correction, and Surveyor 4 was lost to contact (possibly exploding) 2.5 minutes before its scheduled touch-down.
All seven spacecraft are still on the Moon; none of the missions included returning them to Earth. Some parts of Surveyor 3 were returned to Earth by the crew of Apollo 12, which landed near it in 1969. The camera from this craft is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter
The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface, they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit.
All five missions were successful, and 99% of the Moon was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters or better. The first three missions were dedicated to imaging 20 potential manned lunar landing sites, selected based on Earth-based observations. These were flown at low inclination orbits. The fourth and fifth missions were devoted to broader scientific objectives and were flown in high-altitude polar orbits... All Lunar Orbiter craft were launched by an Atlas-Agena D launch vehicle.
The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. Both lenses, a 610 mm narrow angle high resolution (HR) lens and an 80 mm wide angle medium resolution (MR) lens, placed their frame exposures on a single roll of 70 mm film... The film was then processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth.
During the Lunar Orbiter missions, the first pictures of Earth as a whole were taken...
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1966 NASA Highlights: "Aeronautics and Space Report" Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter, Gemini, X-15...
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"Surveyor lands on the Moon, Lunar Orbiter, weather satellites, Orbiting Geophysical Observatory, Pi...
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"Surveyor lands on the Moon, Lunar Orbiter, weather satellites, Orbiting Geophysical Observatory, Pioneer, sounding rockets, solar eclipse, X-15, lifting bodies, solid rockets, nuclear powered engines, Project Gemini ends, and Apollo-Saturn."
Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_Program
The Surveyor Program was a NASA program that, from 1966 through 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon. Its primary goal was to demonstrate the feasibility of soft landings on the Moon. The mission called for the craft to travel directly to the Moon on an impact trajectory, on a journey that lasted 63 to 65 hours, and ended with a deceleration of just over three minutes to a soft-landing. The program was implemented by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to prepare for the Apollo program...
Five of the Surveyor craft successfully soft-landed on the moon, including the first one. The other two failed: Surveyor 2 crashed at high velocity after a failed mid-course correction, and Surveyor 4 was lost to contact (possibly exploding) 2.5 minutes before its scheduled touch-down.
All seven spacecraft are still on the Moon; none of the missions included returning them to Earth. Some parts of Surveyor 3 were returned to Earth by the crew of Apollo 12, which landed near it in 1969. The camera from this craft is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_program
The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface, they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit.
All five missions were successful, and 99% of the Moon was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters or better... All Lunar Orbiter craft were launched by an Atlas-Agena D launch vehicle.
The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. Both lenses, a 610 mm narrow angle high resolution (HR) lens and an 80 mm wide angle medium resolution (MR) lens, placed their frame exposures on a single roll of 70 mm film... The film was then processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth.
During the Lunar Orbiter missions, the first pictures of Earth as a whole were taken, beginning with Earth-rise over the lunar surface by Lunar Orbiter 1 in August, 1966...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiting_Geophysical_Observatory
Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO) refers to the six satellites launched by the United States that were in use from September 1964 to 1972, designed to study the Earth's magnetosphere. The satellites successfully studied the interactions between the Earth and the Sun, despite a number of technical problems. Each satellite had 20 to 25 instruments. OGO 1, OGO 3, and OGO 5 were in equatorial orbits; OGO 2, OGO 4, and OGO 6 were in lower polar orbits...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA
NERVA is an acronym for Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application, a joint program of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and NASA managed by the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office (SNPO) until both the program and the office ended at the end of 1972.
NERVA demonstrated that nuclear thermal rocket engines were a feasible and reliable tool for space exploration, and at the end of 1968 SNPO certified that the latest NERVA engine, the NRX/XE, met the requirements for a manned Mars mission. Although NERVA engines were built and tested as much as possible with flight-certified components and the engine was deemed ready for integration into a spacecraft, much of the U.S. space program was cancelled by the Nixon Administration before a manned visit to Mars could take place.
NERVA was considered by the AEC, SNPO and NASA to be a highly successful program; it met or exceeded its program goals. Its principal objective was to "establish a technology base for nuclear rocket engine systems to be utilized in the design and development of propulsion systems for space mission application".[1] Virtually all space mission plans that use nuclear thermal rockets use derivative designs from the NERVA NRX or Pewee...
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"Surveyor lands on the Moon, Lunar Orbiter, weather satellites, Orbiting Geophysical Observatory, Pioneer, sounding rockets, solar eclipse, X-15, lifting bodies, solid rockets, nuclear powered engines, Project Gemini ends, and Apollo-Saturn."
Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_Program
The Surveyor Program was a NASA program that, from 1966 through 1968, sent seven robotic spacecraft to the surface of the Moon. Its primary goal was to demonstrate the feasibility of soft landings on the Moon. The mission called for the craft to travel directly to the Moon on an impact trajectory, on a journey that lasted 63 to 65 hours, and ended with a deceleration of just over three minutes to a soft-landing. The program was implemented by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to prepare for the Apollo program...
Five of the Surveyor craft successfully soft-landed on the moon, including the first one. The other two failed: Surveyor 2 crashed at high velocity after a failed mid-course correction, and Surveyor 4 was lost to contact (possibly exploding) 2.5 minutes before its scheduled touch-down.
All seven spacecraft are still on the Moon; none of the missions included returning them to Earth. Some parts of Surveyor 3 were returned to Earth by the crew of Apollo 12, which landed near it in 1969. The camera from this craft is on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_program
The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface, they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit.
All five missions were successful, and 99% of the Moon was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters or better... All Lunar Orbiter craft were launched by an Atlas-Agena D launch vehicle.
The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. Both lenses, a 610 mm narrow angle high resolution (HR) lens and an 80 mm wide angle medium resolution (MR) lens, placed their frame exposures on a single roll of 70 mm film... The film was then processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth.
During the Lunar Orbiter missions, the first pictures of Earth as a whole were taken, beginning with Earth-rise over the lunar surface by Lunar Orbiter 1 in August, 1966...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiting_Geophysical_Observatory
Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO) refers to the six satellites launched by the United States that were in use from September 1964 to 1972, designed to study the Earth's magnetosphere. The satellites successfully studied the interactions between the Earth and the Sun, despite a number of technical problems. Each satellite had 20 to 25 instruments. OGO 1, OGO 3, and OGO 5 were in equatorial orbits; OGO 2, OGO 4, and OGO 6 were in lower polar orbits...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA
NERVA is an acronym for Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application, a joint program of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and NASA managed by the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office (SNPO) until both the program and the office ended at the end of 1972.
NERVA demonstrated that nuclear thermal rocket engines were a feasible and reliable tool for space exploration, and at the end of 1968 SNPO certified that the latest NERVA engine, the NRX/XE, met the requirements for a manned Mars mission. Although NERVA engines were built and tested as much as possible with flight-certified components and the engine was deemed ready for integration into a spacecraft, much of the U.S. space program was cancelled by the Nixon Administration before a manned visit to Mars could take place.
NERVA was considered by the AEC, SNPO and NASA to be a highly successful program; it met or exceeded its program goals. Its principal objective was to "establish a technology base for nuclear rocket engine systems to be utilized in the design and development of propulsion systems for space mission application".[1] Virtually all space mission plans that use nuclear thermal rockets use derivative designs from the NERVA NRX or Pewee...
- published: 30 Nov 2012
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Lunar Orbiter: "Close Up of the Moon, A Look at Lunar Orbiter" circa 1967 NASA
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- Duration: 10:14
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An Apollo-era overview of the Lunar Orbiter program, spacecraft and mission. Describes the spacecraf...
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An Apollo-era overview of the Lunar Orbiter program, spacecraft and mission. Describes the spacecraft trajectory and orbit, and how the Lunar Orbiter camera system works. Also mentions Ranger and Surveyor.
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_program
The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface, they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit.
All five missions were successful, and 99% of the Moon was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters (200 ft) or better. The first three missions were dedicated to imaging 20 potential manned lunar landing sites, selected based on Earth-based observations. These were flown at low inclination orbits. The fourth and fifth missions were devoted to broader scientific objectives and were flown in high-altitude polar orbits. Lunar Orbiter 4 photographed the entire nearside and 9% of the far side, and Lunar Orbiter 5 completed the far side coverage and acquired medium (20 m (66 ft)) and high (2 m (6 ft 7 in)) resolution images of 36 pre-selected areas. All Lunar Orbiter craft were launched by an Atlas-Agena D launch vehicle.
The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. Both lenses, a 610 mm (24 in) narrow angle high resolution (HR) lens and an 80 mm (3.1 in) wide angle medium resolution (MR) lens, placed their frame exposures on a single roll of 70 mm film. The axes of the two cameras were coincident so the area imaged in the HR frames were centered within the MR frame areas. The film was moved during exposure to compensate for the spacecraft velocity, which was estimated by an electro-optical sensor. The film was then processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth.
During the Lunar Orbiter missions, the first pictures of Earth as a whole were taken, beginning with Earth-rise over the lunar surface by Lunar Orbiter 1 in August, 1966. The first full picture of the whole Earth was taken by Lunar Orbiter 5 on 8 August 1967. A second photo of the whole Earth was taken by Lunar Orbiter 5 on 10 November 1967...
Backup
As a backup for Lunar Orbiter, NASA and NRO cooperated on the Lunar Mapping and Survey System (LM&SS;), based on the KH-7 reconnaissance satellite. Replacing the Lunar Module in the Saturn V, Apollo astronauts would operate LM&SS; remotely in lunar orbit. NASA canceled the project in the summer of 1967 after Lunar Orbiter's success...
The photographic system was provided by Eastman Kodak and derived from a system, provided by the National Reconnaissance Office, designed for the U-2 and SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft. The camera used two lenses to simultaneously expose a wide-angle and a high-resolution image on the same film. The wide-angle, medium resolution mode used an 80 mm F 2.8 Xenotar lens manufactured by Schneider Kreuznach, Germany. The high-resolution mode used a 610 mm F 5.6 Panoramic lens manufactured by the Pacific Optical Company. The film was developed on-orbit, and then scanned by a photomultiplier for transmission to Earth...
The Lunar Orbiter program was managed by NASA Langley Research Center at a total cost of roughly $200 million...
In 2000, the Astrogeology Research Program of the US Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona was funded by NASA (as part of the Lunar Orbiter Digitization Project) to scan at 25 micrometre resolution archival LO positive film strips that were produced from the original data. The goal was to produce a global mosaic of the Moon...
In 2007, the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) began a process to convert the Lunar Orbiter Images directly from the original Ampex FR-900 analog video recordings of the spacecraft data to digital image format, a change which provided vastly improved resolution over the original images released in the 1960s. The first of these restored images were released in late 2008...
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An Apollo-era overview of the Lunar Orbiter program, spacecraft and mission. Describes the spacecraft trajectory and orbit, and how the Lunar Orbiter camera system works. Also mentions Ranger and Surveyor.
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_program
The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967. Intended to help select Apollo landing sites by mapping the Moon's surface, they provided the first photographs from lunar orbit.
All five missions were successful, and 99% of the Moon was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters (200 ft) or better. The first three missions were dedicated to imaging 20 potential manned lunar landing sites, selected based on Earth-based observations. These were flown at low inclination orbits. The fourth and fifth missions were devoted to broader scientific objectives and were flown in high-altitude polar orbits. Lunar Orbiter 4 photographed the entire nearside and 9% of the far side, and Lunar Orbiter 5 completed the far side coverage and acquired medium (20 m (66 ft)) and high (2 m (6 ft 7 in)) resolution images of 36 pre-selected areas. All Lunar Orbiter craft were launched by an Atlas-Agena D launch vehicle.
The Lunar Orbiters had an ingenious imaging system, which consisted of a dual-lens camera, a film processing unit, a readout scanner, and a film handling apparatus. Both lenses, a 610 mm (24 in) narrow angle high resolution (HR) lens and an 80 mm (3.1 in) wide angle medium resolution (MR) lens, placed their frame exposures on a single roll of 70 mm film. The axes of the two cameras were coincident so the area imaged in the HR frames were centered within the MR frame areas. The film was moved during exposure to compensate for the spacecraft velocity, which was estimated by an electro-optical sensor. The film was then processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth.
During the Lunar Orbiter missions, the first pictures of Earth as a whole were taken, beginning with Earth-rise over the lunar surface by Lunar Orbiter 1 in August, 1966. The first full picture of the whole Earth was taken by Lunar Orbiter 5 on 8 August 1967. A second photo of the whole Earth was taken by Lunar Orbiter 5 on 10 November 1967...
Backup
As a backup for Lunar Orbiter, NASA and NRO cooperated on the Lunar Mapping and Survey System (LM&SS;), based on the KH-7 reconnaissance satellite. Replacing the Lunar Module in the Saturn V, Apollo astronauts would operate LM&SS; remotely in lunar orbit. NASA canceled the project in the summer of 1967 after Lunar Orbiter's success...
The photographic system was provided by Eastman Kodak and derived from a system, provided by the National Reconnaissance Office, designed for the U-2 and SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft. The camera used two lenses to simultaneously expose a wide-angle and a high-resolution image on the same film. The wide-angle, medium resolution mode used an 80 mm F 2.8 Xenotar lens manufactured by Schneider Kreuznach, Germany. The high-resolution mode used a 610 mm F 5.6 Panoramic lens manufactured by the Pacific Optical Company. The film was developed on-orbit, and then scanned by a photomultiplier for transmission to Earth...
The Lunar Orbiter program was managed by NASA Langley Research Center at a total cost of roughly $200 million...
In 2000, the Astrogeology Research Program of the US Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona was funded by NASA (as part of the Lunar Orbiter Digitization Project) to scan at 25 micrometre resolution archival LO positive film strips that were produced from the original data. The goal was to produce a global mosaic of the Moon...
In 2007, the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) began a process to convert the Lunar Orbiter Images directly from the original Ampex FR-900 analog video recordings of the spacecraft data to digital image format, a change which provided vastly improved resolution over the original images released in the 1960s. The first of these restored images were released in late 2008...
- published: 14 Jun 2014
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Video Replay: The Moon - Incredible Lunar Views From The Japanese SELENE Orbiter - Earthrise
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Take a journey across the surface of the moon. See the earth rise and set from the lunar surface.
This video was recorded by the SELENE Lunar Orbiter - images ...
Take a journey across the surface of the moon. See the earth rise and set from the lunar surface.
This video was recorded by the SELENE Lunar Orbiter - images are copyright JAXA / NHK
SELENE , better known in Japan by its nickname Kaguya, was the second Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft following the Hiten probe]
Produced by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) and the National Space Development Agency (NASDA), the spacecraft was launched on September 14, 2007. After successfully orbiting the Moon for a year and eight months, the main orbiter was instructed to impact on the lunar surface near the crater Gill on June 10, 2009.[2]
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Take a journey across the surface of the moon. See the earth rise and set from the lunar surface.
This video was recorded by the SELENE Lunar Orbiter - images are copyright JAXA / NHK
SELENE , better known in Japan by its nickname Kaguya, was the second Japanese lunar orbiter spacecraft following the Hiten probe]
Produced by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) and the National Space Development Agency (NASDA), the spacecraft was launched on September 14, 2007. After successfully orbiting the Moon for a year and eight months, the main orbiter was instructed to impact on the lunar surface near the crater Gill on June 10, 2009.[2]
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Final Photos Taken From Doomed Lunar Orbiter | Video
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- Duration: 1:52
- Updated: 13 Jan 2013
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Three days prior to its impact into a mountain on the moon, one of the twin spacecraft (named Ebb) from NASA's GRAIL mission took some photos from orbit. The sp...
Three days prior to its impact into a mountain on the moon, one of the twin spacecraft (named Ebb) from NASA's GRAIL mission took some photos from orbit. The spacecraft was about 6 miles above the lunar surface when the photos were take.
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Three days prior to its impact into a mountain on the moon, one of the twin spacecraft (named Ebb) from NASA's GRAIL mission took some photos from orbit. The spacecraft was about 6 miles above the lunar surface when the photos were take.
- published: 13 Jan 2013
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LRO Revisits Apollo Landing Sites
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- Duration: 3:40
- Updated: 06 Sep 2011
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, LRO, has captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of where three Apollo missions were conducted on the moon's sur...
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, LRO, has captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of where three Apollo missions were conducted on the moon's surface. The pictures of the Apollo 17, Apollo 14, and Apollo 12 landing sites were taken while LRO was in what's referred to as a "dipping orbit," where the spacecraft was roughly 15 miles above the surface. They reveal the twists and turns of the paths made when the missions' six astronauts explored these areas.
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, LRO, has captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of where three Apollo missions were conducted on the moon's surface. The pictures of the Apollo 17, Apollo 14, and Apollo 12 landing sites were taken while LRO was in what's referred to as a "dipping orbit," where the spacecraft was roughly 15 miles above the surface. They reveal the twists and turns of the paths made when the missions' six astronauts explored these areas.
- published: 06 Sep 2011
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Enhanced Lunar Orbiter II Image of Copernicus
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- Duration: 0:04
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- published: 04 Sep 2011
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WHY NASA NEVER RETURNED TO THE MOON? PART 2 (APRIL 2011)
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- Updated: 27 Apr 2011
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The most recently launched lunar orbiter is China's Chang'e 2, which was launched in early October 2010. China is also planning to land motorized rovers and col...
The most recently launched lunar orbiter is China's Chang'e 2, which was launched in early October 2010. China is also planning to land motorized rovers and collect samples in the Chang'e 3 and Chang'e 4 missions and return lunar soil samples by 2018.[44]
Russia's Luna-Glob 1 expected to be launched in 2012. In 2007 the head of the Russian Space Agency announced plans to send cosmonauts to the Moon by 2025 and establish a permanent manned base there in 2027-2032.[45]
ISRO, the Indian National Space agency, is planning a second version of Chandrayaan named Chandrayaan 2. According to former ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair, "The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) hopes to land two motorised rovers - one Indian and another Russian - on the Moon in 2013, as a part of its second Chandrayaan mission. The rover will be designed to move on wheels on the lunar surface, pick up samples of soil or rocks, do on-site chemical analysis and send the data to the mother-spacecraft Chandrayaan II, which will be orbiting above. Chandrayaan II will transmit the data to Earth." The payloads have already been finalized.[46][47] ISRO has mentioned that due to weight restrictions it will not be carrying any overseas payloads on this mission. The lander weight is projected to be 1,250 kg, and the spacecraft will be launched by the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle.
The Google Lunar X Prize competition offers a $20 million award for the first privately funded team to land a robotic probe on the Moon. Like the Ansari X Prize before it, the competition aims to advance the state of the art in private space exploration.
Some people have insisted that the Apollo Moon landings were a hoax. These accusations flourish in part because predictions by enthusiasts that Moon landings would become commonplace have not yet come to pass. Some claims can be empirically discredited by three retroreflector arrays left on the Moon by Apollo 11,[49] 14 and 15. With new technology, it is possible for anyone on Earth with an appropriate laser and telescope system to bounce laser beams off these devices, verifying deployment of the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment at historically documented Apollo Moon landing sites. This evidence indicates the deployment of equipment which was constructed on Earth and successfully transported to the surface of the Moon. In addition, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, in August 2009, began to send back high resolution photos showing the Apollo landing sites.
A total of twelve people have landed on the Moon. This was accomplished with two US pilot-astronauts flying a Lunar Module on each of six NASA missions across a 41-month time span starting on 21 July 1969 UTC, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11 (with Armstrong being first to set foot on the surface), and ending on 14 December 1972 UTC with Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt on Apollo 17 (with Cernan being the last to step off the lunar surface). All Apollo lunar missions had a third crew member who remained onboard the Command Module. The last three missions had a rover for increased mobility.
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The most recently launched lunar orbiter is China's Chang'e 2, which was launched in early October 2010. China is also planning to land motorized rovers and collect samples in the Chang'e 3 and Chang'e 4 missions and return lunar soil samples by 2018.[44]
Russia's Luna-Glob 1 expected to be launched in 2012. In 2007 the head of the Russian Space Agency announced plans to send cosmonauts to the Moon by 2025 and establish a permanent manned base there in 2027-2032.[45]
ISRO, the Indian National Space agency, is planning a second version of Chandrayaan named Chandrayaan 2. According to former ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair, "The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) hopes to land two motorised rovers - one Indian and another Russian - on the Moon in 2013, as a part of its second Chandrayaan mission. The rover will be designed to move on wheels on the lunar surface, pick up samples of soil or rocks, do on-site chemical analysis and send the data to the mother-spacecraft Chandrayaan II, which will be orbiting above. Chandrayaan II will transmit the data to Earth." The payloads have already been finalized.[46][47] ISRO has mentioned that due to weight restrictions it will not be carrying any overseas payloads on this mission. The lander weight is projected to be 1,250 kg, and the spacecraft will be launched by the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle.
The Google Lunar X Prize competition offers a $20 million award for the first privately funded team to land a robotic probe on the Moon. Like the Ansari X Prize before it, the competition aims to advance the state of the art in private space exploration.
Some people have insisted that the Apollo Moon landings were a hoax. These accusations flourish in part because predictions by enthusiasts that Moon landings would become commonplace have not yet come to pass. Some claims can be empirically discredited by three retroreflector arrays left on the Moon by Apollo 11,[49] 14 and 15. With new technology, it is possible for anyone on Earth with an appropriate laser and telescope system to bounce laser beams off these devices, verifying deployment of the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment at historically documented Apollo Moon landing sites. This evidence indicates the deployment of equipment which was constructed on Earth and successfully transported to the surface of the Moon. In addition, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, in August 2009, began to send back high resolution photos showing the Apollo landing sites.
A total of twelve people have landed on the Moon. This was accomplished with two US pilot-astronauts flying a Lunar Module on each of six NASA missions across a 41-month time span starting on 21 July 1969 UTC, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11 (with Armstrong being first to set foot on the surface), and ending on 14 December 1972 UTC with Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt on Apollo 17 (with Cernan being the last to step off the lunar surface). All Apollo lunar missions had a third crew member who remained onboard the Command Module. The last three missions had a rover for increased mobility.
- published: 27 Apr 2011
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Lunar Orbiter 1 Arrives at Moon 1966 Universal Newsreel August 15, 1966
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"AROUND THE MOON: A preview of actualities and simulations of the adventures around the Moon of the Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft. The facts of how it achieved its perfect orbit and what it did when it began its circling. The whole story of the Moon orbit mechanics and how the pictures taken are transmitted back to earth."
From Universal Newsreel Volume 39 Release 66
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
LUNAR ORBITER PHOTO ATLAS http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/
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The Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic (unmanned) spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon...
The spacecraft was placed in an Earth parking orbit on August 10, 1966, at 19:31 UTC. The trans-lunar injection burn occurred at 20:04 UTC...
Lunar Orbiter 1 was injected into an elliptical near-equatorial lunar orbit 92.1 hours after launch... The spacecraft acquired photographic data from August 18 to 29, 1966, and readout occurred through September 14, 1966...
from The Lunar Orbiter (1965)
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19650008849_1965008849.pdf
The Lunar Orbiter has as its prime objective the photographic coverage of selected portions of the lunar surface. Although the Ranger Program has provided some extremely valuable high resolution lunar photographs, the coverage is too limited t o provide sufficient information for Apollo. The Lunar Orbiter coverage will be secured with sufficient resolution and will cover enough area to allow the selection of landing sites for Apollo, and in conjunction with the Surveyor Spacecraft will provide necessary information for the safe landing of Apollo. The spacecraft has been designed around its photographic payload, and does not carry many subsidiary experiments; however, it will provide information regarding the lunar gravitational , and a limited amount of information regarding micrometeorites and energetic particles...
It is planned that the first Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft will be launched in 1966, using an Atlas-Agena vehicle. The launch technique and procedures will be very similar to those used for the Ranger Spacecraft, except for the launch windows and the targeting required for proper lunar orbits. These are unique for the Orbiter...
The spacecraft camera... contains two f15.6 lenses, a 24-inch focal length high-resolution lens, and a 3-inch focal length lens used for moderate resolution stereo coverage. Simultaneous exposures are made...
...In the flight configuration all of the main spacecraft structure above the equipment mounting deck is covered with a highly reflective shroud of aluminum coated mylar. During launch, the solar panels are folded under the spacecraft base and the antennas held against the side of the structure. The spacecraft is 5 1/2 feet high and 5 feet in diameter, excluding the solar panels and antennas. When deployed, the span along the antenna booms is l& feet and about 12 feet across the solar panels...
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"AROUND THE MOON: A preview of actualities and simulations of the adventures around the Moon of the Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft. The facts of how it achieved its perfect orbit and what it did when it began its circling. The whole story of the Moon orbit mechanics and how the pictures taken are transmitted back to earth."
From Universal Newsreel Volume 39 Release 66
Public domain film from the US National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and one-pass brightness-contrast-color correction & mild video noise reduction applied.
The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original).
LUNAR ORBITER PHOTO ATLAS http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/
NSSDC Lunar Orbiter Links:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/lunarorb.html
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_1
The Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic (unmanned) spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon...
The spacecraft was placed in an Earth parking orbit on August 10, 1966, at 19:31 UTC. The trans-lunar injection burn occurred at 20:04 UTC...
Lunar Orbiter 1 was injected into an elliptical near-equatorial lunar orbit 92.1 hours after launch... The spacecraft acquired photographic data from August 18 to 29, 1966, and readout occurred through September 14, 1966...
from The Lunar Orbiter (1965)
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19650008849_1965008849.pdf
The Lunar Orbiter has as its prime objective the photographic coverage of selected portions of the lunar surface. Although the Ranger Program has provided some extremely valuable high resolution lunar photographs, the coverage is too limited t o provide sufficient information for Apollo. The Lunar Orbiter coverage will be secured with sufficient resolution and will cover enough area to allow the selection of landing sites for Apollo, and in conjunction with the Surveyor Spacecraft will provide necessary information for the safe landing of Apollo. The spacecraft has been designed around its photographic payload, and does not carry many subsidiary experiments; however, it will provide information regarding the lunar gravitational , and a limited amount of information regarding micrometeorites and energetic particles...
It is planned that the first Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft will be launched in 1966, using an Atlas-Agena vehicle. The launch technique and procedures will be very similar to those used for the Ranger Spacecraft, except for the launch windows and the targeting required for proper lunar orbits. These are unique for the Orbiter...
The spacecraft camera... contains two f15.6 lenses, a 24-inch focal length high-resolution lens, and a 3-inch focal length lens used for moderate resolution stereo coverage. Simultaneous exposures are made...
...In the flight configuration all of the main spacecraft structure above the equipment mounting deck is covered with a highly reflective shroud of aluminum coated mylar. During launch, the solar panels are folded under the spacecraft base and the antennas held against the side of the structure. The spacecraft is 5 1/2 feet high and 5 feet in diameter, excluding the solar panels and antennas. When deployed, the span along the antenna booms is l& feet and about 12 feet across the solar panels...
- published: 30 Nov 2016
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Lunar Orbiter 1: Around The Moon - 1966 Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42
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- Duration: 1:48
- Updated: 10 Apr 2017
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Universal Newsreel report from August 1966. Title: "Around The Moon. Orbiter camera ready to film landing sites".
The Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic (unmanned) spacec...
Universal Newsreel report from August 1966. Title: "Around The Moon. Orbiter camera ready to film landing sites".
The Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic (unmanned) spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon. It was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. It was also equipped to collect selenodetic, radiation intensity, and micrometeoroid impact data.
The spacecraft was placed in an Earth parking orbit on August 10, 1966, at 19:31 UTC. The trans-lunar injection burn occurred at 20:04 UTC. The spacecraft experienced a temporary failure of the Canopus star tracker (probably due to stray sunlight) and overheating during its cruise to the Moon. The star tracker problem was resolved by navigating using the Moon as a reference, and the overheating was abated by orienting the spacecraft 36 degrees off-Sun to lower the temperature.
Lunar Orbiter 1 was injected into an elliptical near-equatorial lunar orbit 92.1 hours after launch. The initial orbit was 189.1 by 1,866.8 kilometers (117.5 mi × 1,160.0 mi) and had a period of 3 hours 37 minutes and an inclination of 12.2 degrees. On August 21, perilune was dropped to 58 km (36 mi) and on August 25 to 40.5 km (25.2 mi). The spacecraft acquired photographic data from August 18 to 29, 1966, and readout occurred through September 14, 1966.
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Universal Newsreel report from August 1966. Title: "Around The Moon. Orbiter camera ready to film landing sites".
The Lunar Orbiter 1 robotic (unmanned) spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, was the first American spacecraft to orbit the Moon. It was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. It was also equipped to collect selenodetic, radiation intensity, and micrometeoroid impact data.
The spacecraft was placed in an Earth parking orbit on August 10, 1966, at 19:31 UTC. The trans-lunar injection burn occurred at 20:04 UTC. The spacecraft experienced a temporary failure of the Canopus star tracker (probably due to stray sunlight) and overheating during its cruise to the Moon. The star tracker problem was resolved by navigating using the Moon as a reference, and the overheating was abated by orienting the spacecraft 36 degrees off-Sun to lower the temperature.
Lunar Orbiter 1 was injected into an elliptical near-equatorial lunar orbit 92.1 hours after launch. The initial orbit was 189.1 by 1,866.8 kilometers (117.5 mi × 1,160.0 mi) and had a period of 3 hours 37 minutes and an inclination of 12.2 degrees. On August 21, perilune was dropped to 58 km (36 mi) and on August 25 to 40.5 km (25.2 mi). The spacecraft acquired photographic data from August 18 to 29, 1966, and readout occurred through September 14, 1966.
WDTVLIVE42 - Transport, technology, and general interest movies from the past - newsreels, documentaries & publicity films from my archives.
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- published: 10 Apr 2017
- views: 281
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L.S.G. - Rendezvous In Outer Space (Full Mixed 1995 Album)
L.S.G. Rendezvous In Outer Space Oliver Lieb Superstition 1995 Wrong Time ... Wrong Place 9:50 Lonely Casseopaya 3:56 My Time Is Yours 5:53 Can You See The Yellow Turtles 5:40 Miss Understanding 2:42 Sweet Gravity 4:43 Sweet G (#2) 2:43 The Hidden Sun Of Venus 5:05 Lunar Orbit 2:27 Everything Is ... 2:18 Enter - Paradise 7:02 Fontana 8:17 Reprise 1:43
published: 05 Feb 2017 -
1966 History of Spaceflight in RSS / Project Alexandria-13 / KSP 1.0.4
This is the history of real spaceflight using Real Solar System. This episode contains material related to: Sergei Korolev (death) - January 14 ,1966 Luna 9 - January 31, 1966, 11:45:00 UTC Saturn SA-201 - February 26, 1966, 16:12:01 UTC Gemini 8 - March 16, 1966, 16:41:02 UTC Luna 10 - March 31, 1966, 10:48:00 UTC Surveyor 1 - May 30, 1966, 14:41:01 UTC Gemini 9 - June 3, 1966, 13:39:33 UTC Saturn SA-202 - July 5, 1966, 14:53:13 UTC Gemini 10 - July 18, 1966, 22:20:26 UTC Lunar Orbiter 1 - August 10, 1966, 19:31 UTC Saturn SA-203 - August 25, 1966, 17:15:32 UTC Gemini 11 - September 12, 1966, 14:42:26 UTC Surveyor 2 - September 20, 1966, 12:32:00 UTC Lunar Orbiter 2 - November 6, 1966, 23:21:00 UTC Gemini 12 - November 15, 1966, 19:21:04 UTC Forum pages: Alexandria: http://goo.gl/slDlEF...
published: 21 Dec 2015 -
RP-0 Tutorial Campaign Part 11: More Moon
In this episode we discuss research options and fly a lunar orbital mission with the Lunex 2 spacecraft from the last episode. -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/nathankell
published: 19 Jun 2016 -
Chipmunks On 16 Speed - Sludgefest 2 (Full Album)
Connect With Lunar Orbit Here: https://www.facebook.com/LunarOrbitUpload/ 1.) Charlots of Fire 2.) Good Girls Don't 3.) How Do I Make You 4.) This Diamond Ring 5.) Eye of the Tiger 6.) Fame 7.) Mr. Tambourine Man
published: 13 May 2017 -
Moruf - Shades of Moo (Full Album)
Connect with Lunar Orbit: https://www.facebook.com/LunarOrbitUpload/ 1.) Neighborhood 2.) RealEyes 3.) Respect (skit with Sza) 4.) Respect94 5.) Soulhop 6.) Togetherness 7.) Restwell 8.) her. 9.) Homie.Love.Friend Jessie Boykins III 10.) Compromise 11.) tangerine [demo] 12.) Buckle Up 13.) Joy Tears ft. Chris Turner 14.) Fallen 15.) DYV 16.) SoulRich (bonus) 17.) Dodging.Dark.Clouds (bonus) 18.) Letter2Los (bonus)
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Apollo 12 - Lunar Orbit TV (Full Mission 11)
Apollo 12 - Lunar orbit TV (Full MIssion 11) The crew conduct a 30 minute TV broadcast on orbit 2 then start preperations for the DOI 2 burn. Orbiter Space Simulator is used to depict the mission where real time video is not available. Burns and attitudes are approximated. All video/film and audio is courtesy NASA. I recommend reading the transcript of the mission from the APollo 12 Flight Journal.
published: 13 Jan 2017 -
KSP RSS, RO, RP-0 EP7: Designing a lunar orbiter and launching a lunar impactor
Episode 7: Before launching Mani 1, the lunar impacter we designed in episode 6, we design the Mani 2, a lunar orbiter based on our modular launch platorm Borr Alpha. This is a career playthrough of KSP RP-0 from early sounding rockets and on, with a focus on the trials and tribulations of designing and flying rockets. It's not a mission highlight series. Mission log: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YauwWoZO7qMTdKOs6Te68RKRn_tbZA38KqtXXapkluk/edit?usp=sharing Forum thread: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/134309-an-rssrorp-0-video-playthrough/
published: 31 Mar 2016 -
KSP RP-0 1.1 - Ep37: Gemini Direct Saturn V Part 2
Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) burn and Lunar Orbital Insertion (LOI) for Gemini Direct.
published: 27 Dec 2016
L.S.G. - Rendezvous In Outer Space (Full Mixed 1995 Album)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:02:26
- Updated: 05 Feb 2017
- views: 65
L.S.G.
Rendezvous In Outer Space
Oliver Lieb
Superstition 1995
Wrong Time ... Wrong Place 9:50
Lonely Casseopaya 3:56
My Time Is Yours 5:53
Can You See The Yel...
L.S.G.
Rendezvous In Outer Space
Oliver Lieb
Superstition 1995
Wrong Time ... Wrong Place 9:50
Lonely Casseopaya 3:56
My Time Is Yours 5:53
Can You See The Yellow Turtles 5:40
Miss Understanding 2:42
Sweet Gravity 4:43
Sweet G (#2) 2:43
The Hidden Sun Of Venus 5:05
Lunar Orbit 2:27
Everything Is ... 2:18
Enter - Paradise 7:02
Fontana 8:17
Reprise 1:43
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L.S.G.
Rendezvous In Outer Space
Oliver Lieb
Superstition 1995
Wrong Time ... Wrong Place 9:50
Lonely Casseopaya 3:56
My Time Is Yours 5:53
Can You See The Yellow Turtles 5:40
Miss Understanding 2:42
Sweet Gravity 4:43
Sweet G (#2) 2:43
The Hidden Sun Of Venus 5:05
Lunar Orbit 2:27
Everything Is ... 2:18
Enter - Paradise 7:02
Fontana 8:17
Reprise 1:43
- published: 05 Feb 2017
- views: 65
1966 History of Spaceflight in RSS / Project Alexandria-13 / KSP 1.0.4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 41:32
- Updated: 21 Dec 2015
- views: 10260
This is the history of real spaceflight using Real Solar System.
This episode contains material related to:
Sergei Korolev (death) - January 14 ,1966
Luna 9 - ...
This is the history of real spaceflight using Real Solar System.
This episode contains material related to:
Sergei Korolev (death) - January 14 ,1966
Luna 9 - January 31, 1966, 11:45:00 UTC
Saturn SA-201 - February 26, 1966, 16:12:01 UTC
Gemini 8 - March 16, 1966, 16:41:02 UTC
Luna 10 - March 31, 1966, 10:48:00 UTC
Surveyor 1 - May 30, 1966, 14:41:01 UTC
Gemini 9 - June 3, 1966, 13:39:33 UTC
Saturn SA-202 - July 5, 1966, 14:53:13 UTC
Gemini 10 - July 18, 1966, 22:20:26 UTC
Lunar Orbiter 1 - August 10, 1966, 19:31 UTC
Saturn SA-203 - August 25, 1966, 17:15:32 UTC
Gemini 11 - September 12, 1966, 14:42:26 UTC
Surveyor 2 - September 20, 1966, 12:32:00 UTC
Lunar Orbiter 2 - November 6, 1966, 23:21:00 UTC
Gemini 12 - November 15, 1966, 19:21:04 UTC
Forum pages:
Alexandria: http://goo.gl/slDlEF
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Gateway: http://goo.gl/9PznwT
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Additional footage, special thanks to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_(miniseries)
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This is the history of real spaceflight using Real Solar System.
This episode contains material related to:
Sergei Korolev (death) - January 14 ,1966
Luna 9 - January 31, 1966, 11:45:00 UTC
Saturn SA-201 - February 26, 1966, 16:12:01 UTC
Gemini 8 - March 16, 1966, 16:41:02 UTC
Luna 10 - March 31, 1966, 10:48:00 UTC
Surveyor 1 - May 30, 1966, 14:41:01 UTC
Gemini 9 - June 3, 1966, 13:39:33 UTC
Saturn SA-202 - July 5, 1966, 14:53:13 UTC
Gemini 10 - July 18, 1966, 22:20:26 UTC
Lunar Orbiter 1 - August 10, 1966, 19:31 UTC
Saturn SA-203 - August 25, 1966, 17:15:32 UTC
Gemini 11 - September 12, 1966, 14:42:26 UTC
Surveyor 2 - September 20, 1966, 12:32:00 UTC
Lunar Orbiter 2 - November 6, 1966, 23:21:00 UTC
Gemini 12 - November 15, 1966, 19:21:04 UTC
Forum pages:
Alexandria: http://goo.gl/slDlEF
Odyssey: http://goo.gl/Wq5Urp
Gateway: http://goo.gl/9PznwT
Turbo Time AMA: http://goo.gl/ryC77q
Git repo: http://goo.gl/K3PNkt
Additional footage, special thanks to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Earth_to_the_Moon_(miniseries)
Music in this video might be from one or more of these sources:
http://incompetech.com
http://www.bensound.com
https://machinimasound.com
http://www.twinmusicom.org
http://audionautix.com
https://soundcloud.com
YouTube "free"
PowerDirector "free"
All licensed under CC:By
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- published: 21 Dec 2015
- views: 10260
RP-0 Tutorial Campaign Part 11: More Moon
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- Duration: 57:29
- Updated: 19 Jun 2016
- views: 1079
In this episode we discuss research options and fly a lunar orbital mission with the Lunex 2 spacecraft from the last episode. -- Watch live at https://www.twit...
In this episode we discuss research options and fly a lunar orbital mission with the Lunex 2 spacecraft from the last episode. -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/nathankell
https://wn.com/Rp_0_Tutorial_Campaign_Part_11_More_Moon
In this episode we discuss research options and fly a lunar orbital mission with the Lunex 2 spacecraft from the last episode. -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/nathankell
- published: 19 Jun 2016
- views: 1079
Chipmunks On 16 Speed - Sludgefest 2 (Full Album)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 40:38
- Updated: 13 May 2017
- views: 840
Connect With Lunar Orbit Here:
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1.) Charlots of Fire
2.) Good Girls Don't
3.) How Do I Make You
4.) This Diamond Ring...
Connect With Lunar Orbit Here:
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1.) Charlots of Fire
2.) Good Girls Don't
3.) How Do I Make You
4.) This Diamond Ring
5.) Eye of the Tiger
6.) Fame
7.) Mr. Tambourine Man
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1.) Charlots of Fire
2.) Good Girls Don't
3.) How Do I Make You
4.) This Diamond Ring
5.) Eye of the Tiger
6.) Fame
7.) Mr. Tambourine Man
- published: 13 May 2017
- views: 840
Moruf - Shades of Moo (Full Album)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 48:35
- Updated: 11 Nov 2014
- views: 40066
Connect with Lunar Orbit:
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1.) Neighborhood
2.) RealEyes
3.) Respect (skit with Sza)
4.) Respect94
5.) Soulhop
6.) To...
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1.) Neighborhood
2.) RealEyes
3.) Respect (skit with Sza)
4.) Respect94
5.) Soulhop
6.) Togetherness
7.) Restwell
8.) her.
9.) Homie.Love.Friend Jessie Boykins III
10.) Compromise
11.) tangerine [demo]
12.) Buckle Up
13.) Joy Tears ft. Chris Turner
14.) Fallen
15.) DYV
16.) SoulRich (bonus)
17.) Dodging.Dark.Clouds (bonus)
18.) Letter2Los (bonus)
https://wn.com/Moruf_Shades_Of_Moo_(Full_Album)
Connect with Lunar Orbit:
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1.) Neighborhood
2.) RealEyes
3.) Respect (skit with Sza)
4.) Respect94
5.) Soulhop
6.) Togetherness
7.) Restwell
8.) her.
9.) Homie.Love.Friend Jessie Boykins III
10.) Compromise
11.) tangerine [demo]
12.) Buckle Up
13.) Joy Tears ft. Chris Turner
14.) Fallen
15.) DYV
16.) SoulRich (bonus)
17.) Dodging.Dark.Clouds (bonus)
18.) Letter2Los (bonus)
- published: 11 Nov 2014
- views: 40066
thestand4rd (Full Album)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 38:51
- Updated: 05 Nov 2014
- views: 15133
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1.) Binoculars
2.) Stay
3.) Simple Needs
4.) Pretty
5.) Vital Signs
6.) Too Involved
7.) D...
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1.) Binoculars
2.) Stay
3.) Simple Needs
4.) Pretty
5.) Vital Signs
6.) Too Involved
7.) Decisions
8.) Tryna Fuk/No Reply
9.) Weight
10.) AsapRockyTypeBeat
11.) Victims
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Pj5 - Floor Dance (Full Jazz Album)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 34:24
- Updated: 28 Jan 2017
- views: 622
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1.) Eggs and Clouds
2.) Floor Dance
3.) Claire De Lune
4.) Floating Peach
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1.) Eggs and Clouds
2.) Floor Dance
3.) Claire De Lune
4.) Floating Peach
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Apollo 12 - Lunar Orbit TV (Full Mission 11)
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- Duration: 57:03
- Updated: 13 Jan 2017
- views: 3258
Apollo 12 - Lunar orbit TV (Full MIssion 11)
The crew conduct a 30 minute TV broadcast on orbit 2 then start preperations for the DOI 2 burn.
Orbiter Space Si...
Apollo 12 - Lunar orbit TV (Full MIssion 11)
The crew conduct a 30 minute TV broadcast on orbit 2 then start preperations for the DOI 2 burn.
Orbiter Space Simulator is used to depict the mission where real time video is not available. Burns and attitudes are approximated.
All video/film and audio is courtesy NASA.
I recommend reading the transcript of the mission from the APollo 12 Flight Journal.
https://wn.com/Apollo_12_Lunar_Orbit_Tv_(Full_Mission_11)
Apollo 12 - Lunar orbit TV (Full MIssion 11)
The crew conduct a 30 minute TV broadcast on orbit 2 then start preperations for the DOI 2 burn.
Orbiter Space Simulator is used to depict the mission where real time video is not available. Burns and attitudes are approximated.
All video/film and audio is courtesy NASA.
I recommend reading the transcript of the mission from the APollo 12 Flight Journal.
- published: 13 Jan 2017
- views: 3258
KSP RSS, RO, RP-0 EP7: Designing a lunar orbiter and launching a lunar impactor
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:09:51
- Updated: 31 Mar 2016
- views: 239
Episode 7: Before launching Mani 1, the lunar impacter we designed in episode 6, we design the Mani 2, a lunar orbiter based on our modular launch platorm Borr ...
Episode 7: Before launching Mani 1, the lunar impacter we designed in episode 6, we design the Mani 2, a lunar orbiter based on our modular launch platorm Borr Alpha.
This is a career playthrough of KSP RP-0 from early sounding rockets and on, with a focus on the trials and tribulations of designing and flying rockets. It's not a mission highlight series.
Mission log: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YauwWoZO7qMTdKOs6Te68RKRn_tbZA38KqtXXapkluk/edit?usp=sharing
Forum thread: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/134309-an-rssrorp-0-video-playthrough/
https://wn.com/Ksp_Rss,_Ro,_Rp_0_Ep7_Designing_A_Lunar_Orbiter_And_Launching_A_Lunar_Impactor
Episode 7: Before launching Mani 1, the lunar impacter we designed in episode 6, we design the Mani 2, a lunar orbiter based on our modular launch platorm Borr Alpha.
This is a career playthrough of KSP RP-0 from early sounding rockets and on, with a focus on the trials and tribulations of designing and flying rockets. It's not a mission highlight series.
Mission log: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YauwWoZO7qMTdKOs6Te68RKRn_tbZA38KqtXXapkluk/edit?usp=sharing
Forum thread: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/134309-an-rssrorp-0-video-playthrough/
- published: 31 Mar 2016
- views: 239
KSP RP-0 1.1 - Ep37: Gemini Direct Saturn V Part 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 33:30
- Updated: 27 Dec 2016
- views: 267
Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) burn and Lunar Orbital Insertion (LOI) for Gemini Direct.
- published: 27 Dec 2016
- views: 267
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Lunar Photography: "Assignment: Shoot the Moon" 1967 NASA; Ranger, Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter
more at http://scitech.quickfound.net/astro/project_apollo.html
"National Aeronautics and...
published: 19 Aug 2015
Lunar Photography: "Assignment: Shoot the Moon" 1967 NASA; Ranger, Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter
Lunar Photography: "Assignment: Shoot the Moon" 1967 NASA; Ranger, Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter
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1966 NASA Highlights: "Aeronautics and Space Report" Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter, Gemini, X-15...
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"Surveyor lands on the Moon, L...
published: 30 Nov 2012
1966 NASA Highlights: "Aeronautics and Space Report" Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter, Gemini, X-15...
1966 NASA Highlights: "Aeronautics and Space Report" Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter, Gemini, X-15...
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Lunar Orbiter: "Close Up of the Moon, A Look at Lunar Orbiter" circa 1967 NASA
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An Apollo-era overview of the ...
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Lunar Orbiter: "Close Up of the Moon, A Look at Lunar Orbiter" circa 1967 NASA
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Video Replay: The Moon - Incredible Lunar Views From The Japanese SELENE Orbiter - Earthrise
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Final Photos Taken From Doomed Lunar Orbiter | Video
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LRO Revisits Apollo Landing Sites
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Enhanced Lunar Orbiter II Image of Copernicus
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WHY NASA NEVER RETURNED TO THE MOON? PART 2 (APRIL 2011)
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WHY NASA NEVER RETURNED TO THE MOON? PART 2 (APRIL 2011)
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Lunar Orbiter 1 Arrives at Moon 1966 Universal Newsreel August 15, 1966
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Lunar Orbiter 1 Arrives at Moon 1966 Universal Newsreel August 15, 1966
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Lunar Orbiter 1: Around The Moon - 1966 Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42
Universal Newsreel report from August 1966. Title: "Around The Moon. Orbiter camera ready ...
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Lunar Photography: "Assignment: Shoot the Moon" 1967 NASA; Ranger, Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter
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Lunar Photography: "Assignment: Shoot the Moon" 1967 NASA; Ranger, Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter
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1966 NASA Highlights: "Aeronautics and Space Report" Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter, Gemini, X-15...
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1966 NASA Highlights: "Aeronautics and Space Report" Surveyor, Lunar Orbiter, Gemini, X-15...
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Lunar Orbiter: "Close Up of the Moon, A Look at Lunar Orbiter" circa 1967 NASA
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Video Replay: The Moon - Incredible Lunar Views From The Japanese SELENE Orbiter - Earthrise
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Final Photos Taken From Doomed Lunar Orbiter | Video
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Final Photos Taken From Doomed Lunar Orbiter | Video
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LRO Revisits Apollo Landing Sites
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LRO Revisits Apollo Landing Sites
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Enhanced Lunar Orbiter II Image of Copernicus
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WHY NASA NEVER RETURNED TO THE MOON? PART 2 (APRIL 2011)
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WHY NASA NEVER RETURNED TO THE MOON? PART 2 (APRIL 2011)
WHY NASA NEVER RETURNED TO THE MOON? PART 2 (APRIL 2011)
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Lunar Orbiter 1 Arrives at Moon 1966 Universal Newsreel August 15, 1966
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Lunar Orbiter 1 Arrives at Moon 1966 Universal Newsreel August 15, 1966
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Lunar Orbiter 1: Around The Moon - 1966 Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42
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L.S.G. - Rendezvous In Outer Space (Full Mixed 1995 Album)
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1966 History of Spaceflight in RSS / Project Alexandria-13 / KSP 1.0.4
This is the history of real spaceflight using Real Solar System.
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1966 History of Spaceflight in RSS / Project Alexandria-13 / KSP 1.0.4
1966 History of Spaceflight in RSS / Project Alexandria-13 / KSP 1.0.4
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RP-0 Tutorial Campaign Part 11: More Moon
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RP-0 Tutorial Campaign Part 11: More Moon
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Chipmunks On 16 Speed - Sludgefest 2 (Full Album)
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Moruf - Shades of Moo (Full Album)
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Moruf - Shades of Moo (Full Album)
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thestand4rd (Full Album)
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Pj5 - Floor Dance (Full Jazz Album)
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Apollo 12 - Lunar Orbit TV (Full Mission 11)
Apollo 12 - Lunar orbit TV (Full MIssion 11)
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Apollo 12 - Lunar Orbit TV (Full Mission 11)
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KSP RSS, RO, RP-0 EP7: Designing a lunar orbiter and launching a lunar impactor
Episode 7: Before launching Mani 1, the lunar impacter we designed in episode 6, we design...
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KSP RSS, RO, RP-0 EP7: Designing a lunar orbiter and launching a lunar impactor
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KSP RP-0 1.1 - Ep37: Gemini Direct Saturn V Part 2
Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI) burn and Lunar Orbital Insertion (LOI) for Gemini Direct.
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KSP RP-0 1.1 - Ep37: Gemini Direct Saturn V Part 2
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Gunman Burns Self To Death After Robbery Attempt in Manila Casino
Edit WorldNews.com 02 Jun 2017
Local media reported that 25 bodies were found in a casino and hotel complex near Manila in the Philippines on Friday morning after a violent shooting, according to CNN. Most of the deceased appeared to have suffered from suffocation from the thick smoke after the man set fire to casino tables at Resorts World Manila ... Authorities said they were sweeping the complex and checking all rooms since the shooter's body was found....
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The Next Particle Collider Could Be 7 Times More Powerful Than The LHC
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An international collaboration of scientists has started its many decades' worth of work to build a worthy successor to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), IFL Science reports. More than 500 scientists are meeting in Berlin to discuss the plans that will bring the future particle accelerator to life. The event was organized by the Future Circular Collider (FCC) Study ... This is not just a question of scaling up what we currently have....
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Merkel Halts Afghan Deportations From Germany After Deadly Kabul Attack
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Germany will temporarily suspend group deportations of rejected Afghan asylum seekers after a disastrous suicide attack killed at least 90 and injured more than 460 in the capital city of Kabul, according to Al Jazeera ... So far 3,300 Afghans have agreed to those terms from Germany in 2016 ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
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Resorts World Manila attack: Injuries reported at hotel, casino complex in Philippines
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Dozens of people are reportedly injured after gunfire erupted at a mall, casino and hotel complex near Manila's international airport in the Philippine capital early Friday morning by several gunmen who claimed to be part of ISIS ... ....
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Giant Crack in Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf Grew 11 Miles in Just 6 Days
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A huge crack in one of Antarctica’s largest ice shelves has grown by another 11 miles, leaving an area of ice a quarter of the size of New Jersey hanging on by a section that is only eight miles long. When it eventually breaks away, it will become one of the largest icebergs ever recorded, scientists say. Scientists with Project Midas, a U.K ... The crack continues to grow ... Subscribe to Newsweek from $1 per week ... Larsen C ice shelf....
ViaSat lofts world's most powerful communications satellite into orbit
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Hitches ride with Ariane after SpaceX drops the ball American comms specialist ViaSat is set to put the world's most powerful communications satellite into orbit on Thursday afternoon atop an Ariane rocket ... ....
ViaSat-2: Satellite goliath goes into orbit
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The most powerful commercial broadband satellite ever built has just gone into orbit on an Ariane rocket ... ....
Satellite spots “strange spots” in Mars; What’s inside it?
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The Hi-RISE instrument on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured a stunning new image in the surrounding area of ‘Swiss cheese terrain’ on Mars’ southern hemisphere....
Flight VA237: On mission that boosts global connectivity for ViaSat and Eutelsat, the 79th successful launch by Arianespace’s Ariane 5 sets a new performance record and orbits its first all-electric satellite
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ViaSat-2 for ViaSat Inc.; and EUTELSAT 172B for the operator Eutelsat - which is the first all-electric satellite to be orbited by an Ariane 5 ... The Ariane 5 ECA also set a new performance record into geostationary transfer orbit, carrying a total payload of 10,865 kg ... 54th Boeing satellite launched by Arianespace since orbiting Aussat K3 in 1987....
Arianespace marks its 2017 mid-year launch milestone with a record-setting Ariane 5 mission at the service of ViaSat and Eutelsat
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On its sixth successful launch during the first half of 2017, Arianespace's Ariane 5 set a new heavy-lift record tonight in delivering the ViaSat-2 and EUTELSAT 172B telecommunications satellites to geostationary transfer orbit ... The first passenger released during Flight VA237 was ViaSat-2, which is to be operated from an orbital position of 70 deg....
Enormous Stratolaunch aircraft rolled out for first time
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The rockets will be released, ignite their engines and carry small satellites weighing up to 1,000 pounds (453.6 kilograms) to low Earth orbit. Under a deal announced last year, Stratolaunch will use Pegasus XL winged rockets provided by Orbital ATK of Dulles, Virginia ... In the 1990s, Orbital Sciences Corp ... A spinoff, Virgin Orbit, is also developing an air launcher for putting small satellites into space....
U.S. Cargo Ships to Depart, Arrive at International Space Station
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WASHINGTON, June 1, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With the delay of SpaceX's eleventh commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station to Saturday, June 3, two NASA commercial provider cargo ships now will pass each other in orbit to provide services to the space station ... Dragon's new launch date will enable the Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo spacecraft to depart the station Sunday, June 4....
Enormous Stratolaunch plane's wingspan is bigger than a football field
Edit The Dallas Morning News 02 Jun 2017
The rockets will be released, ignite their engines and carry small satellites weighing up to 1,000 pounds (453.6 kilograms) to low Earth orbit. Under a deal announced last year, Stratolaunch will use Pegasus XL winged rockets provided by Orbital ATK of Dulles, Virginia ... In the 1990s, Orbital Sciences Corp ... A spinoff, Virgin Orbit, is also developing an air launcher for putting small satellites into space.WHAT'S NEXT....
Colossal rocket-launching plane rolls toward testing
Edit China Daily 02 Jun 2017
Allen's vision of normalizing access to low Earth orbit," Floyd said ... When the ambitious venture was launched some six years ago by philanthropist Allen, partners in the project vowed it would revolutionize orbital travel in the post-space shuttle era. Using huge passenger jet engines, it would tote a rocket and be able to launch payloads, satellites and someday humans into low-Earth orbit, Allen said at the time ... Agence France-presse. ....
Rocket-launching plane in the spotlight
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SAN FRANCISCO ... Allen’s vision of normalising access to low Earth orbit," Floyd said ... When the ambitious venture was launched some six years ago by philanthropist Allen, partners in the project vowed it would revolutionise orbital travel in the post-space shuttle era. Using huge passenger jet engines, it would tote a rocket and be able to launch payloads, satellites and someday humans into low-Earth orbit, Allen said at the time ... ....
Monster Stratolaunch Aircraft Rolled Out, Getting Closer to First Flights
Edit Universe Today 02 Jun 2017
Known as Stratolaunch Systems, this Seattle-based company was founded with the intention of developing air-launch-to-orbit systems. Similar to Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, this concept involves a large air carrier flying rockets to launch altitude as cost-effective means of delivering small payloads to orbit ... the “Roc”) ... ....
New evidence of frost on moon's surface
Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2017
Using data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), scientists, including University of Hawai'i at Mānoa researcher Paul Lucey, have identified bright areas in craters near the moon's south pole that are cold enough to have frost present on the surface ... In craters near the south pole of the moon, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter found some bright areas and some very cold areas....
Here’s a look at Paul Allen’s new project which launches rockets into outer space
Edit TechRadar 02 Jun 2017
Finding clientele already . Interestingly, even though Stratolaunch is still new to the scene, it is expected to take the Pegasus XL rocket to outer space, after Orbital ATK ( the company responsible for Pegasus XL) signed a deal with Stratolaunch to send its rocket into outer space. The Pegasus XL is used to carry small satellites into orbit, and the job is made even easier using the Stratolaunch aircraft. ....
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