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G0TEZ > SPACE 08.07.09 04:43l 61 Lines 2460 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: First moon landing.
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A couple of weeks ago, it was mentioned on RT that they were celebrating
the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing in 1959.
No, not by a man but by a robot lander, the first of many which took
samples of the moon's suirface and radioed the results back to the USSR.
They said, back then, that they didn't see the point in wasting time and
money on food and oxygen necessary to send human beings along for the
ride.
I believe that they were ahead of the USA in most things, not least in
that they could return back to their take - off point on solid land
instead of having to splash down in the Pacific and be retrieved by
helicopters from an aircraft carrier.
I suspect that, like most of the radio hams on here, I can clearly
remember the tv
transmissions from space, as they happened. The US transmissions used NTSC
with all the hue changes that implied. Who doesn't remember an Apollo
launch as a rocket with a green flame behind it lifted into a purple sky,
then became an orange jet in a beautiful sky.
The USSR who used a version of SECAM H, which they had 'invented', had no
such problems.
Who remembers how the first TV pictures from the Moon were sent from a
camera using the 3 colour Frame Sequential System which meant having a
three segment RGB spinning disc in the camera, and how, within two
minutes, the astronaut holding it, pointed it at the sun which caused the
disc to lock in a position which gave a diagonal line across our screens
with a red top section and a green bottom section.
I rolled about laughing as I listened to the asstronauts talking in a kind
of code to Houston.The gist of the advice they got meant "thump it." which
didn't do much good.
On the 21st of July, if you are in Europe or the 20th of July if you are
in the USA,you will see a lot of items commemorating the first manned Moon
landing. I'm sure our TV channels will be full of it.
I am amazed at how many Brits say that they watched the landin in the
evening when, in fact, it was delayed until 02.54 GMT for the American
peak viewing audience.
I didn't see it as I was on holiday, quite deliberately, in a place with
almost no TV so I have only ever seen the film version of the landing.
You can check on the Luniks and the time of the Appollo II landing on the
internet before you shout Liar,Liar ! BTW.
73 - Ian, G0TEZ
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