The Real First “Moon Walk”ers
Forty years to the day after Apollo 11 astronauts blasted off on the way to their historic first moon landing, NASA [Thursday] previewed restored video of the first moon walk. The enhanced images are a dramatic improvement over the pictures seen by hundreds of millions around the world when they were broadcast live from the moon.
On his way to being the first man to set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong opened a door on the lunar landing craft that had a small television camera attached. The camera swung out, giving a worldwide audience its first look at — well, it was actually hard to tell at first.
“The camera worked, but what we saw at that point was rather disturbing, because it was not what we had simulated, and we knew we had a problem,” said Stan Lebar, who helped develop that camera, a three-kilogram marvel of its day. But the signal it transmitted from the moon was lower quality than regular television, so it had to be converted to broadcast standards before it could be seen around the world. — [ More ]
Now listening LIVE to this on SomaFM (Thanks Brad — this is HHAWESOME!):
“Mission Control: Celebrating NASA and Space Explorers everywhere.”
Apollo 11 mission set to music.
40 years later…I’m feeling a bit old, but am still giddy with excitement. Today will be fun, and distracting