Spaceflight History set to Interstellar Music Medley
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If the video doesn't work for you, please try the Vimeo version: https://vimeo.com/130961949 This is a compilation video of many different space missions, most involving humans, set to the awesome music of Interstellar. My goal was to provide a filmic music video experience for the watcher, not just showing off some of the great footage that's out there, but also taking the viewer on somewhat of a ride through space history whilst providing some historical context. I was inspired to do this after watching Interstellar and realizing just how much awesome 'real' footage there is that many people alive today will not have seen yet. Collecting the right footage and editing the video took a few days in total, spread out over a good two months. Editing this video was a very meaningful and enjoyable experience. It is important to note that events shown in this video are not chronological. Although I have tried to keep events ordered logically, I have often intercut footage from several different missions to make for a more telling story. That said, I've kept a somewhat linear timeline, where we start with the V2 missile, then see the X15, Mercury, Gemini, some early EVAs, Apollo, and a lot of what comes after. Additionally included are several shots from Curiosity (and the landing from mission control perspective), some great footage from Voyager and Cassini, SpaceShip Two, SpaceX Dragon and Grasshopper test flights, a lot of footage from the ISS, Orion, Space Shuttle, Soyuz, Skylab, Hubble, and much more. With the exception of animations of Jupiter and Saturn, which were based on real photos but have been digitally enhanced, everything is completely real. Nothing in this video is animated. Some shots have been stabilized as they came from damaged film sources. Credits: Music: Hans Zimmer Additional Music Recreated By: https://www.youtube.com/user/Yourfavoratemusic Footage comes from a variety of sources. A lot of it came from YouTube or Vimeo. Some great footage however is freely available on Archive.org, here: https://archive.org/details/nasa If you download a lot of footage from this website (like I did), please make sure you donate to offset bandwidth costs. You can do this by going here: https://archive.org/donate/ Overall well over 100 sources have been used for this video. If you're looking for a specific shot, send me a message and I'll do what I can to point you to the original. Some footage that I feel deserves special attention, because of the amount of effort that went into creating it includes: Chris Hadfield's Space Oddity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo Sander van den Berg's Outer Space - http://vimeo.com/40234826 In Saturn's Rings - http://www.insaturnsrings.com/ No copyright infringement was intended for this video. It's purpose is public entertainment, I have no other gain from it.
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Back when America was Great (White)!
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what track is the one playing at the very end of the video?
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Best video on you tube!
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This was actually composed quite well. Loved it!
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Freaking excellent! Very dang inspirational. Very well done. Please, keep being awesome sir!
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This video is the most beautiful thing I've seen in a long time. I can't thank you enough for making it. The Interstellar medley was incredibly appropriate, too. There's something about the music that is very, very powerful. I am at a loss for words to express how incredibly happy it made me feel to recognise most of the scenes, especially the ones that had no context like the landing of Curiosity. It brought back memories of waking up at 4am just to see that happen live, and the pure joy I felt when they got back the picture of the wheel on Mars.
The only thing that could have made this video even better would have been a narration of some of the key events. But other than that, it's fantastic. Thank you so much for making it. -
Incredible video i love it. My hair on my arms stood up
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this was great thanks. dem feels lol
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