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The Apollo 11 missing tapes were those that were recorded from Apollo 11's slow-scan television (SSTV) telecast in its raw format on telemetry data tape at the time of the first Moon landing in 1969 and subsequently lost. The data tapes were used to record all transmitted data (video as well as telemetry) for backup.
English: Video of the Apollo 11 launch, taken from the base of the Launch Umbilical Tower on the Mobile Launcher. Camera E-8 captured this footage on 16 mm film at 500 frames per second. This footage takes place within approximately 30 seconds of real time.
The Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle lifts off with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. at 9:32 am. EDT July 16, 1969, from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A. An estimated one million spectators watched the launch of Apollo 11 from the highways and beaches in the vicinity of the launch site.
Fifty years after the first Americans walked on the moon, the ingenuity of the Apollo 11 mission is still felt on Earth. Here’s a look at the legacy of NASA’s Apollo space program.
Apollo 7 slow-scan TV, transmitted by the RCA command module TV camera. NASA decided on initial specifications for TV on the Apollo command module (CM) in 1962. [2] [ Note 1] Both analog and digital transmission techniques were studied, but the early digital systems still used more bandwidth than an analog approach: 20 MHz for the digital system, compared to 500 kHz for the analog system. [2]
The Apollo 11 crew bent some of the rods intended to hold the flag out straight, which added some ripples. ... Sunlight reflects off objects on the moon the same way it does here on Earth. So all ...
After a three-year search, the "inescapable conclusion" was that about 45 tapes (estimated 15 tapes recorded at each of the three tracking stations) of Apollo 11 video were erased and re-used, said Nafzger. [129] Lowry Digital had been tasked with restoring the surviving footage in time for the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing. Lowry ...
Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins returned Tuesday to the exact spot where he flew to the moon 50 years ago with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. ... 1969 — that the Saturn V rocket blasted off ...