NASA recreates in 4k the first trip to the lunar orbit

On the occasion of the 50 -year commemoration of the first orbital trip on the Moon, NASA produces a 4K video that collects the photographs captured in December 1968 by Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders from Apollo 8.

In December 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 He became the first people to leave our blue planet and travel to another body in space. But as the crewmen Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders, later recalled, The most important thing they discovered was the earth.

Using photographic mosaics and elevation data of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), the NASA He has just published a 4K video to recreate this space trip in which the Apollo 8 crew was able to photograph the earth for the first time raising from behind the moon.

The narrator Andrew Chaikin, author of A man on the moon (a man on the moon) He is in charge of accompanying the viewer during the three minutes of the view from inside and outside the spacecraft.

This 4K route is based on numerous historical sources, including the real cloud pattern on Earth. The edition is so accurate that it establishes the Time Code of the original roll and, for the first time, identifies from which window each photograph was taken.

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