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Originally Posted by Carol
I vividly remember staying up late with my parents to watch the astronauts walk on the moon. (And wondering why my siblings didn't stay up! Maybe no coincidence I was the only one who went on to a STEM career).
Picture what it was like. We were watching video LIVE FROM THE MOON. This was in the transistor radio era, before internet, video tapes, VCRs, digital anything. And this was LIVE FROM THE MOON. I still get shivers thinking about it.
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My favorite part about the broadcast is that it essentially came from a video camera pointed at a 10" screen because NASA didn't have proper equipment to convert the SSTV video to NTSC format...then [not so promptly] lost the original tapes with the original video signal.