The lunar rover TV camera could be remote controlled from earth. There are no pictures of the LEM taking off before Apollo 15, because those missions didn’t have rovers along.
Nope, there would have been a time-delay from earth, even if you could electronically transmit to the camera for the “tilt up” and “zoom out” shots of the Lunar Module.
The camera would not have followed the lift off in real time, it would have been delayed.
In other words, a time delay would prevent the camera from tilting and zooming with the lift-off in real time, as the film reveals.
Were those firecrackers underneath? Where was the engine plume?
Comedy gold. (Or is it Americans’ Gold?)
Nope, there would have been a time-delay from earth, even if you could electronically transmit to the camera for the “tilt up” and “zoom out” shots of the Lunar Module.
The camera would not have followed the lift off in real time, it would have been delayed.
In other words, a time delay would prevent the camera from tilting and zooming with the lift-off in real time, as the film reveals.
Were those firecrackers underneath? Where was the engine plume?
Comedy gold. (Or is it Americans’ Gold?)
Look at the shot again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HQfauGJaTs