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Footage of Apollo 15 landing at Hadley Rille (July 30, 1971), speed corrected and with synchronized audio. Audio was panned, placing the astronauts full left or right and mission control center. Touchdown was hard with the lander resting at an angle. Some photos are added toward the end of the video to show this. Original footage was taken as 12 frames per second. Here is was interpolated using DAIN AI to the cinema standard 24 fps. The frame was rotated according to camera position on the forward Lunar Module window. Research, editing and color correction by Retro Space HD. ========================================= Apollo 15 was the ninth crewed mission in the United States' Apollo program and the fourth to land on the Moon. It was the first J mission, with a longer stay on the Moon and a greater focus on science than earlier landings. Apollo 15 had the first use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle. The 1971 mission began on July 26 and ended on August 7, with the lunar surface exploration taking place between July 30 and August 2. Below about 60 feet (18 m), Scott could see nothing of the surface because of the quantities of lunar dust being displaced by Falcon's exhaust. Falcon had a larger engine bell than previous LMs, in part to accommodate a heavier load, and the importance of shutting down the engine at initial contact rather than risk “blowback“, the exhaust reflecting off the lunar surface and going back into the engine (possibly causing an explosion) had been impressed on the astronauts by mission planners. Thus, when Irwin called “Contact“, indicating that one of the probes on the landing leg extensions had touched the surface, Scott immediately shut off the engine, letting the lander fall the remaining distance to the surface. Already moving downward at about .5 feet ( m) per second, Falcon dropped from a height of 1.6 feet ( m). Scott's speed resulted in what was likely the hardest lunar landing of any of the crewed missions, at about 6.8 feet (2.1 m) per second, causing a startled Irwin to yell “Bam!“ Scott had landed Falcon on the rim of a small crater he could not see, and the lander settled back at an angle of 6.9 degrees and to the left of 8.6 degrees. Irwin described it in his autobiography as the hardest landing he had ever been in, and he feared that the craft would keep tipping over, forcing an immediate abort ========================================= A special thanks to the channel supporters ( ): Asbjørn Bill Hurley Darcy Barrett Ellie Burack Francis Bernier Gary Smith Gio Pagliari Jan Strzelecki Jeff Pleimling Jules E Nathan Koga Nathan Westwick Noah Soderquist Ryan Hardy Scott Manley ======================================== #apollo15 #nasa #apolloprogram
