in the background. And they're doing jobs that no American will do.
Posted on 08/13/2006 10:31:14 PM PDT by seacapn
The original film footage of astronaut Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon, one of the most important artifacts of the 20th century, has been lost.
The television broadcast seen by about 600 million people in July 1969 is preserved for posterity, but the original tapes from which the footage was taken have been mislaid, most likely in NASA's vast archives at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
The footage could transform our view of the moon landings, offering images far sharper than the blurred, grainy video shown around the world. It also could lay to rest the conspiracy theory that the landings were faked on a Hollywood soundstage.
Despite its iconic status, the television footage was the equivalent of a photocopy of a photocopy. It came from a camera that had been pointed at a black-and-white monitor on Earth. The image on the monitor, in turn, had been stripped of much of its detail.
To make sure the transmission would make it back to Earth, the images sent from Apollo 11 were recorded at 10 frames per second, and had to be converted to 60 frames per second in order to be broadcast. In the process, much of the detail was lost.
Stan Lebar, now 81, was in charge of the images from Apollo 11. What he saw was so blurred that he initially thought something had gone wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
The television camera was packed aboard the Modular Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA). This was a bay of equipment strapped to the side of the lunar module and wrapped in insulation. It contained the astronauts' tools and supplies for their surface mission. Once on the surface it could be lowered like a drawbridge.
Because it was a prime publicity moment, NASA had to figure out a way to televise the first footsteps on the moon. They did this by arranging for Neil Armstrong to be able to open the MESA while still on the ladder by means of a lanyard connected to the MESA latch.
Once opened automatically, the television camera on a special strut would spring into place and begin transmitting. It was pre-aimed at the ladder. The Apollo 11 press kit distributed in 1969 even contains a diagram showing journalists what they should expect to see with this television camera. http://www.clavius.org/mesacam.html
All the proof I'd ever need was that Uncle Walter would never have gone along with such U.S. Government deception...
To which you replied:
Hey, I have a bunch of rocks over here. They are all from moon. Prove that they aren't.
A trained geologist can identify lunar rock by examining the chemical composition, the ratio of elemental isotopes of the sample, the texture of the mineral, etc. All of these factors are characteristically different in lunar rock than from terrestial rocks. Using such techniques and by comparing samples obtained from the Apollo missions, geologists have been able to identify that some meteorites are made from lunar material; meaning they were blasted off the moon by meteor impact, and the ejected moon rocks were trapped by the earth's gravity and landed on the earth.
Wow, that makes it clear as a bell. NOT!
How does he know? He has to have lunar rock in the first place. I say no one has any.
LOL!
Who's arguing? All I am doing is stating some facts, unlike the other side who only spouts what they have heard.
According to the HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon, Michael Collins made the following suggestion as to what Armstrong should say upon stepping onto the lunar surface: "If you had any balls, you'd say 'Oh, my God, what is that thing?' then scream and cut your mic."
I assume you are referring to the statement that the U.S. put men on the moon. Matter of fact, where is a closeup photo of the cow?
Callahan, is that you?
And those moon rocks come from where?
Or the laser reflectors?
I was hoping someone would mention that.
Additionally, there is the matter that the comms were monitorable by hams equipped with sufficiently robust equipment - if they didn't orginate from the lunar surface, but instead were transmitted from lunar orbit, then they would exhibit Doppler drift, and would have gone out of range everytime the capsule went behind the moon.
Neither effect was observed by hams, or else they would have reported the anomaly. And so would the Russians, who had every reason to want to debunk a faked American space acheivement.
OJ
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