Live From the Moon!
The picture may have been grainy, but it was some of the most riveting TV of the 1960s.
- By Mary McKillop
- AirSpaceMag.com, July 19, 2010
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The Apollo TV shows were not without setbacks. During the third transmission from Apollo 12, as astronaut Alan Bean was adjusting the camera on the tripod to face the Lunar Module, he accidentally pointed the camera at the sun, damaging the camera tube. Thinking that there was a problem with the color wheel, Bean hit the camera to try and get it to work. Unfortunately, that made things worse, and the abrupt end to the transmissions overshadowed the first color TV pictures from the lunar surface.
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Comments (3)
Very nice work, Mary.
Posted by Kay Gutierrez on July 23,2010 | 07:33 AM
John Young and Gene Cernan on Apollo 17? This photo is mislabeled! It's either Charlie Duke or Jack Schmidt. Jack Schmidt if this is Apollo 17 with Gene Cernan. EDITORS' REPLY: You're right! We will research it and fix it. Thank you.
Posted by Frederick Slavin on December 27,2010 | 10:20 AM
Hi Mary -
Those posters are absolutely the greatest!
Hope you get to make many more!
Bill in Milton-Freewater
Posted by Bill Howard on July 20,2011 | 05:34 PM