The RCA television camera (LM4) used on the lunar surface could be operated from three different positions: mounted on the LM modularized equipment storage assembly (MESA), mounted on a tripod and connected to the LM by a cable, and installed on the LRV with signal transmission through the lunar communication relay unit. While on the LRV, the camera was mounted on the ground-controlled television assembly.
The camera could be aimed and controlled by the astronauts or remotely controlled by personnel in the mission control center. Color was achieved by using a rotating disc driven by a 600-rpm motor.
Lunar color scenes were scanned, field sequentially, and down-linked serially to the Manned Space Flight Network. Video was received and recorded from lunar distance at any of the three Deep Space Stations.
"Deep Space Stations" were fed either 2"or 1" video tape, because that was easiest and was the standard for editing... if this was in fact video tape in the Apollo 17 lift off.
Not sure what "tracking stations" they are talking about ... but for SURE there was NOT a 1.5 second relay to Earth that would allow zoom and tilt on the color video camera to watch that toy take off and go up -- Apollo 17 footage.
Now, DouglasKC, please calm down. I'm not sure why this gets you so upset... this is just natural inquiry into how the creation of our Creator made things... it's all okay... The Lord knows the truth and it is our Christian duty to seek out the truth.
Remember the scariest thing in the Bible is:
"And those who no longer love the Truth, God will send a strong Delusion, so that they believe a Lie"...
We have to remember Truth does exist, and earnestly seek it, knowing that God is pleased with us when we do...
As I’ve noted, NASA says that video from the moon was fed to a Deep Space module, where the huge recording machine with 1” tape was rolling. On batteries.
The link that you gave us at #190 does not use the words "Deep Space module" or huge recording machine running "on batteries."
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_17/photography/
It says “Video was received and recorded from lunar distance at any of the three Deep Space Stations.”
The three Deep Space Stations are on Earth, not out in space somewhere running on batteries as you seem to be implying at #169.
About the Deep Space Network
“The DSN consists of three facilities spaced equidistant from each other – approximately 120 degrees apart in longitude – around the world. These sites are at Goldstone, near Barstow, California; near Madrid, Spain; and near Canberra, Australia. The strategic placement of these sites permits constant communication with spacecraft as our planet rotates – before a distant spacecraft sinks below the horizon at one DSN site, another site can pick up the signal and carry on communicating.”