Re:NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles...
by accrual on Monday November 21, 2022 @07:44PM
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> when the Apollo missions were going on, all they had were grainy TV broadcasts
This reminds me of a not-so-fun fact where the original Apollo 11 data tapes were presumed saved elsewhere and were likely erased and recorded over. [0] The video that still remains from "one small step" is essentially a recording of a recording. Since the 10 FPS raw feed wasn't compatible with the TV broadcast standards at the time, they essentially pointed a normal TV camera at a TV displaying the source feed.
However, some better quality broadcast recorded tapes were found, restored, and released in 2009. [1]
This reminds me of a not-so-fun fact where the original Apollo 11 data tapes were presumed saved elsewhere and were likely erased and recorded over. [0] The video that still remains from "one small step" is essentially a recording of a recording. Since the 10 FPS raw feed wasn't compatible with the TV broadcast standards at the time, they essentially pointed a normal TV camera at a TV displaying the source feed.
However, some better quality broadcast recorded tapes were found, restored, and released in 2009. [1]
[0] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/not-unsolved-mysteries-the-lost...
[1] https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/hd/apollo11_hdpage.html