Posts: 603 From: London, England Registered: May 2001
posted 02-24-2026 04:56 AM
The short film "Apollo HD" is a compilation of stunning Apollo footage upscaled using modern techniques set to a beautiful music score.
The film is a compilation of snippets from several missions from the unmanned Apollo 4 test flight thru to Apollo 17
The film was made by Mike Constantine of Moonpans by upscaling and interpolating footage from the NASA Johnson Space Center and The Apollo Flight Journal.
Longer clips of most sequences are also available on the Moonpans YouTube Channel. Please subscribe to the channel for future videos. Thanks for watching.
mmmoo Member
Posts: 603 From: London, England Registered: May 2001
posted 03-26-2026 06:00 AM
Here is a new video onboard the Apollo 15 Rover, captured by Jim Irwin using the 16mm DAC Film Camera. Upscaled, interpolated to 60 FPS and synchronized with mission audio by Mike Constantine.
Posts: 3958 From: Belfast, United Kingdom Registered: Feb 2002
posted 03-27-2026 11:02 AM
Wonderful stuff.
burnsnz Member
Posts: 92 From: Auckland, New Zealand Registered: Jan 2004
posted 03-27-2026 02:39 PM
Fantastic. It is like watching it for the first time again.
Blackarrow Member
Posts: 3958 From: Belfast, United Kingdom Registered: Feb 2002
posted 03-28-2026 11:04 AM
Depends when you first watched it!
I first saw extracts from that Apollo 15 rover-drive (with views of Mount Hadley) on the TV news in August, 1971. The movie footage was of course silent, and presented in either 625 lines colour or 405 lines B&W (depending on whether our temperamental colour TV was working). The first time I saw longer extracts of it was maybe mid-1980s on a VHS copy of the NASA film "In the Mountains of the Moon" presented in colour but with only, I think, 240 scan-lines.
So this is many orders of magnitude better!
mmmoo Member
Posts: 603 From: London, England Registered: May 2001
posted 03-30-2026 08:08 AM
Thanks guys, as well as improving the image quality, a major difference with these videos is the increased frame rate from 12 FPS to 60 FPS, giving an ultra smooth look rather than jerky
Posts: 3958 From: Belfast, United Kingdom Registered: Feb 2002
posted 03-30-2026 08:52 AM
This really demonstrates the hummocky, hilly nature of the Descartes landing-site and surrounds. Definitely not a flat mare surface.
mmmoo Member
Posts: 603 From: London, England Registered: May 2001
posted 04-01-2026 06:55 AM
Here is the Apollo 16 Lunar Grand Prix.
Where the Apollo 16 crew were tasked with putting the Lunar Roving Vehicle through a series of tests to asses its capabilities.
Commander John Young drove the electrically powered rover through a series of maneuvers—including S-turns, hairpin turns, hard stops, and acceleration to "high" speeds of roughly 6–11 mph (10–18 km/h)—while Charles Duke (lunar module pilot) filmed it with a 16 mm camera from a safe distance.
This video has been upscaled in quality, interpolated to 60FPS, Stabilised and synced with mission audio by Moonpans
Original Source Footage: Apollo Flight Journal
Jurg Bolli Member
Posts: 1282 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Nov 2000
posted 04-20-2026 07:36 PM
Great job, thanks.
mmmoo Member
Posts: 603 From: London, England Registered: May 2001
posted 04-24-2026 01:57 PM
Apollo 16 Lunar Liftoff 16mm HD Footage 60 FPS
Footage from the Apollo 16 LM Window of the Lunar Liftoff on April 24 1972. The footage has been upscaled, Interpolated to 60 FPS and synced with mission audio by Moonpans
Original Footage Source: Apollo Flight Journal
mmmoo Member
Posts: 603 From: London, England Registered: May 2001
posted 04-30-2026 04:55 AM
Apollo 11 Post EVA LM Window Footage HD 60 FPS
After the historic Apollo 11 EVA, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin take several short DAC sequences from their respective Lunar Module windows, Neil on the left side and Buzz on the right side.
The footage has been upscaled, Interpolated to 60FPS and had approximate mission audio added by Moonpans
Original Footage Source: Apollo Flight Journal
mmmoo Member
Posts: 603 From: London, England Registered: May 2001
posted 05-07-2026 09:18 AM
Apollo 17 - Gene Cernan's First Steps Upscaled HD 60FPS
Apollo 17 - Gene Cernan’s first steps on the Moon as recorded by Harrison Schmitt from the Lunar Module window using the 16mm DAC camera. Upscaled, interpolated to 60 FPS and mission audio sync by Moonpans
Original source footage: NASA Apollo Flight Journal Original Source Audio : NASA Apollo Lunar Surface Journal
Blackarrow Member
Posts: 3958 From: Belfast, United Kingdom Registered: Feb 2002
posted 05-07-2026 10:23 AM
Another wonderful offering - thank you! I am well familiar with this film sequence, but this is an amazing improvement in quality!
One technical question: at about 00:12 into the film, the image of Cernan becomes even better focused. Was that something to do with the processing, or did Schmitt manually adjust the focus on the DAC?
mmmoo Member
Posts: 603 From: London, England Registered: May 2001
posted 05-08-2026 06:54 AM
I don't see any image improvement at 0.12 on my setup, could it be perhaps your bandwidth improved at 0.12, thereby YouTube showed you the HD version over the non-HD version at that point?
Blackarrow Member
Posts: 3958 From: Belfast, United Kingdom Registered: Feb 2002
posted 05-11-2026 11:00 AM
There's a definite change in sharpness at 0:12 as seen on my new Windows 11 computer. However, when I view the footage on YouTube, the sharpness is consistent from the very start.
mmmoo Member
Posts: 603 From: London, England Registered: May 2001
posted 05-13-2026 07:36 AM
Apollo 17 Views from LM in Lunar Orbit HD 60 FPS
Views from the Apollo 17 Lunar Module captured on the 16mm DAC Camera, shows the Command Module 'America' orbiting below the LM, towards the end of the video there is a spectacular flyby of the Apollo 17 landing site, Taurus Littrow
Upscaled, interpolated to 60 FPS and audio sync by Moonpans. Original Footage Source: Apollo Flight Journal.
posted 02-24-2026 04:56 AM
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