Nostalgia follow-up
Monday Morning Nostalgia Fix:Since the last installment of the Monday Morning Nostalgia Fix talked about the cameras that Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse designed for the Apollo program, it seems only appropriate to show some of the footage those cameras produced.
Incidentally, if you have a spare three weeks to kill, NASA has put online tons of material related to the moon landings, including raw footage, transcripts and original reports.
You can read the original journals kept by flight controllers and astronauts, listen to hours of audio conversations, view high-quality photos and download the technical documents, including operating instructions! It was truly a monumental task to put all of this stuff online, and Mr. MMNF is very grateful to NASA for making it happen.
It almost makes Mr. MMNF happy to pay his taxes!
Readers’ Forum
I watched that event in the wilds of Northwestern Butler County on our 1956 vintage Hotpoint 21S502 TV set, connected to a Finco Polaris VHF antenna.
I was puzzled about the repeated apologies for the poor video quality. WE couldn’t see anything wrong with it.(Until the image showed up as a negative, anyway. ) :)
RJ
RJ Kanary - April 27, 2009 at 5:23 pm