This slow motion space video popped up in my YouTube about ten minutes after I posted last week’s Because It’s Friday, so I had to wait a week to bring it to you. It is high resolution NASA film of the recent Artemis launch, edited into an easily digestible short video by Paul Shillito aka Curious Droid on YouTube.
It had to be edited as the six original high resolution video files are many gigs in size and cover the few minutes of the launch in nearly 8.5 hours of slow motion playback. (There are links in Paul’s video to the original files if you want to download them. The featured image above was a screen grab from one of the files.)
Artemis Launch
Earlier NASA Slow Motion Space Video
Here is the video referenced, discussing the filming of earlier missions in the 60’s and 70’s. The films were made for two reasons, to keep the public informed and interested in space and to provide engineering information for the teams who were racing to the moon.
It is the engineering requirement that drove the technical filming forward. The use of high resolution, high speed cameras located in positions where elaborate engineering solutions were required to protect the cameras from the flames and shock, left an historic archive of films.
More Slow Motion Space Video
If you want to see some of this footage and see some of the cameras used try then seek out a copy of the 1971 documentary Moonwalk One. I have a copy of the 2009 directors cut and it is an interesting “of it’s time” documentary that includes many of these engineering shots of the mission.
Space again…
Next week I will see if I can find something not space related…
Have a good weekend – Smart Thinking will be taking the Bank Holiday Monday off and the cyber security news will start again on Tuesday – unless of course a big story breaks.
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