Retro Space HD | The Lunar Orbiter - HD, NASA, 1967 - A Spacecraft to Advance Lunar Exploration - Moon, Probe @RetroSpaceHD | Uploaded April 2022 | Updated October 2024, 18 hours ago.
Remastered short Boeing documentary about the Lunar Orbiter program (1966/67). The Lunar Orbiter probes mission profile is shown in detail using animations, followed by footage from communication and image reception equipment. These probes had the objective of performing high-resolution lunar mapping in advance for crewed landings.
Sound cleanup, film dust removal, conversion to the original 24 fps frame rate, geometry correction, and color restoration by Retro Space HD.
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The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five uncrewed 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 and photographed both the Moon and Earth.
All five missions were successful, and 99 percent of the lunar surface was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters (200 ft) or better. The film was then processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth.
The first three missions were dedicated to imaging 20 potential crewed 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.
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.
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A special thanks to the channel supporters ( patreon.com/RetroSpaceHD ):
Asbjørn
Bathypterois
Drew Granston
Francis Bernier
Gary Smith
Gio Pagliari
Glenn W. Hussey
Jan Strzelecki
Jeff Pleimling
Jules E
Kevin Spencer
Martin J Lollar
Michael Pennington
Nathan Koga
Noah Soderquist
Rick Durr
Ryan Hardy
Scott Manley
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#nasa #moon #lunarorbiter
Remastered short Boeing documentary about the Lunar Orbiter program (1966/67). The Lunar Orbiter probes mission profile is shown in detail using animations, followed by footage from communication and image reception equipment. These probes had the objective of performing high-resolution lunar mapping in advance for crewed landings.
Sound cleanup, film dust removal, conversion to the original 24 fps frame rate, geometry correction, and color restoration by Retro Space HD.
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The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five uncrewed 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 and photographed both the Moon and Earth.
All five missions were successful, and 99 percent of the lunar surface was mapped from photographs taken with a resolution of 60 meters (200 ft) or better. The film was then processed, scanned, and the images transmitted back to Earth.
The first three missions were dedicated to imaging 20 potential crewed 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.
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.
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A special thanks to the channel supporters ( patreon.com/RetroSpaceHD ):
Asbjørn
Bathypterois
Drew Granston
Francis Bernier
Gary Smith
Gio Pagliari
Glenn W. Hussey
Jan Strzelecki
Jeff Pleimling
Jules E
Kevin Spencer
Martin J Lollar
Michael Pennington
Nathan Koga
Noah Soderquist
Rick Durr
Ryan Hardy
Scott Manley
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#nasa #moon #lunarorbiter
