TV From the Moon - Apollo's Live TV cameras

[@twisterwiper]

It’s amazing to think about all the components that went into the Apollo program. Every little sub-system was an engineering feat in itself.

[@dave_dennis]

I recall getting up VERY early in the morning to watch the Apollo 12 broadcast from the moon with my dad. What a disappointment when the camera was damaged very early in the excursion from the LEM. Still its a good memory of my dad waking me up so that he and I could enjoy this together just the two of us.

[@Erik_Swiger]

Camera Engineer: "Don't point the camera at the Sun!" Astronaut: rides a flaming candle into space, travels 230,000 miles, lands on another world POINTS CAMERA AT SUN

[@DiRF]

Al Bean didn't have very good luck with cameras. Prior to re-entry and splashdown, he forgot to secure a camera mounted in the capsule, and it broke off its mounting upon impact and clocked him in the head, giving him a concussion.

[@arty2k]

Nobody is that stupid. It was damaged on purpose.

[@ArKritz84]

@@arty2k why on earth would they do that?

[@Jan_Strzelecki]

@@arty2k There's no pleasing you guys, is there? Normally, you argue that _Apollo_ missions had to be fake because they supposedly went flawlessly, but when you are told they _weren't,_ you use _that_ as evidence of fakery anyway 🙄

[@arty2k]

@@ArKritz84 so you agree then that the astronaut who trained for years and rehearsed the mission a hundred times was stupid enough to damage an essential piece of equipment accident?

[@cwaldrip]

The video of the Apollo 15 command module lifting off was shot remotely and controlled from Houston. I heard an interview with the NASA engineer - because of the delay he was shooting blind. They knew the had the module in frame before departure, but he basically guessed on when and how fast to zoom out and pan up based on the delay and countdown. It was all done manually, without seeing it live-live… just delayed by a few seconds. Amazing.

[@MrT------5743]

You are a little bit wrong. Apollo 15 liftoff from the moon was a still camera video. There was no zooming out or panning up. Apollo 16 they did attempt to zoom out and pitch up but the LM assent stage still left the camera picture going up faster than they panned up. Apollo 17, they got it it right.

[@mikecowen6507]

Ed Fendell was the engineer.

[@MrT------5743]

@@mikecowen6507 for which one? Apollo 15, 16 or 17?

[@mikecowen6507]

@@MrT------5743 ALL of them. You can consider the first 2 as practice for the near perfect Apollo 17.

[@brianarbenz7206]

Ed Fendell was the gutsiest technician. He practiced for a year and a half for three two-second opportunities which to him meant success or failure of his legacy. As said, 17 was the best. Still, he also planned to catch the Apollo 17 Ascent Stage being crashed onto the moon the next day a few miles away. He had it all meticulously figured, but never caught a view of the crash. It has bugged him ever since. He close to 90 now.

[@boredgrass]

FINALLY, after 52 years, someone explained to me how the first step on the moon could be filmed! The colour tv technology part was captivating! As impressive as current technological advances are, I find even more fascinating what people then were able to achieve by clever use of what they had! I would love to learn even more about the camera and tv tech! It was a great pleasure to watch!

[@MrT------5743]

You do know google has been around for a really long time? I am also pretty sure you could have gone to a library 45 maybe many years ago and looked up the schematics of the LM and saw it had an external camera. It is YOUR fault it took 52 years to get an answer.

[@boredgrass]

@@MrT------5743 I work in a library, so, no chance! 🧐

[@MrT------5743]

@@boredgrass So not knowing for 52 years was just pure laziness then?

[@boredgrass]

@@MrT------5743 Some people live so far away from humour and irony; Even self mockery doesn't reach their ironclad castles. Castles only built to educate the rest of humanity about all their wrong ways to the last syllable of recorded time! Isn't the righteous shadow who struts and frets his comment upon the stage, a poor player? Will he (more often than not a "He") ever be heard?

[@MrT------5743]

@@boredgrass I do not see how your original post was humorous or any form of irony. There is so many uninformed people out there and they live in their ignorance like a baby in a crib thinking it is everyone else's job to cradle them their whole lives. Occasionally they have a question about how something works, but does nothing to try and find the answer. Then after 52 years, someone spoon feeds them the answer they claim they were wondering about all that time. 1. Either you really didn't care about your question. or 2. You are insincere about FINALY knowing the answer after 52 years.

[@demonorb8634]

Taking a camera to the moon was a hassel blad. Fantastic video as always sir!

[@jeffreyskoritowski4114]

Go home. You've eaten to much "Space Icecream". Lol

[@midnightrambler8866]

I remember the lead up to Apollo 11. My dad went out and bought a color TV. Only to find out the signal from the moon was in black and white.

[@morskojvolk]

LOL. We went to my grandparents house to watch it for the same reason.

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fZmwp36saayLa7c :D

[@MonochromeWench]

"Not scientifically important" but extremely politically important. It was during the cold war so being able to one up the soviets with video of the event seems like a no brainer.

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

Let's not forget that politics ultimately gave the project the funding they wouldn't get otherwise.

[@arthurcurrey7109]

Yeah it was important enough to lie about

[@seanf6724]

Paul: The Man, The Myth, The Legend, The Shirt! Great work as always mate.

[@InvestmentJoy]

My dad always complained about the moon landing, specifically how was it recorded if there were no camera men? If only he had known it was due to nasas employment of literal wizards!

[@Agarwaen]

you have low standards if you think placing a camera on the side of something requires wizards

[@InvestmentJoy]

@@Agarwaen tell me you didn't get the joke without telling me you didnt get the joke..

[@DeputyNordburg]

@@InvestmentJoy Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, every parody of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied. Also "Literal wizards"?

[@DeputyNordburg]

@@aemrt5745 The purpose of the conspiracy theory is to draw attention to the author, not the topic or the explanations given. Big Foot came to exist because "I got drunk and lost in the woods" was not as a good a bar story as "I was in a fight for my life with a 7 foot tall man ape". Does the story teller believe the moon landings are fake, the Earth is Flat, politicians are witeral lizards? Does it matter?

[@mondotv4216]

@@DeputyNordburg I don’t think anyone with any critical thinking ability really believes the earth is flat. Some people use it to make money, some are genuinely paranoid, some use it to try and justify their religion or politics (which are perhaps the weirdest reasons of all) and some, unfortunately just lack the ability to think critically. However there are a bunch of people out there who really do believe the moon landings were faked. Once again that’s all built around paranoia and conspiracy but it’s hard to “prove” something that happened 50 years ago, when the major sources are at the heart of the paranoia.

[@jannek5757]

Ahh, just in time to watch instantly :) Good stuff!

[@igorsmihailovs52]

Just like the landing itself was watched :-)

[@Tim67620]

It's amazing to think that because of the war we were denied the first colour TVs. John Logie Baird was on the verge of producing a colour system in Britain in the '30s using the same tech that produced a colour camera for the Moon landings. We had to wait 25 years to finally get it and longer still till it was reasonably available. I never really understood how his spinning wheel worked so thanks Droid for explaining that.

[@bingosunnoon9341]

I worked at a TV station during the first moon landing. We set up a 16mm film camera to record the TV monitor of the images beamed from the moon to Woomera. Videotape was unknown at the time. Vidicon cameras didn't have memory anyway. Film at eleven.

[@Ganiscol]

Imagine they had not broadcasted the most daring endeavor in human history, when the first humans set foot on a celestial body other than Earth. 🤪

[@brantisonfire]

The lizard people running the world have been transiting from here to other “celestial bodies” for eons. We’re stuck on a stage, setup for a production that lies to us in order to provide entertainment for our cold-blooded overlords. Open your eyes and mind, bro.

[@jr2904]

@@brantisonfire Lol

[@TheHqextreme]

@@brantisonfire LOL

[@musicbruv]

@@brantisonfire Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

[@paulhaynes8045]

It's 'broadcast'. And, yes, I know CD said it as well - and he's English and should really know better!

[@robbytheremin2443]

I was one of those 600 million. Just shy of my 12th birthday. What a time to be alive!

[@SaturnCanuck]

That was amazing. I was five and I remember seeing this live!

[@alexlandherr]

Nicolas Cage finding the lost Apollo 11 tapes would be an interesting National Treasure sequel.

[@321CatboxWA]

thank you for not playing the one small step audio clip! cool topic thanks and well done!

[@anthonynorton666]

Thank you. I never get tired of Curious Droid topics.

[@Milosz_Ostrow]

The Apollo 11 camera, mounted in the equipment bay door of the LEM, which flipped down like a drawbridge, was active before Neil Armstrong crawled out and climbed down the ladder on the landing leg. As I recall, though I could be wrong since it has been 52 years, the first few minutes of the live broadcast showed a sideways image because of the way the camera was mounted. The image became upright and more comprehensible a few minutes later when Armstrong removed the camera from the equipment bay and mounted it on the tripod. This isn't evident in the videos shown today, because the converted images rotated the first portion of the transmission and that's all that the last couple of generations have ever known.

[@davok73]

Always a happy day when Curious Droid has a new upload .. keep up the good work!

[@dougiegooner]

What sort of people actually complained about Apollo 13 live film being shown on tv, because it meant they didn't get to finish watching repeats of "I love Lucy!?" That's unbelievable.. And very sad!

[@captiannemo1587]

In fairness “I Love Lucy” is always good shit.

[@mikecowen6507]

@Dougie S LIVE film? Guhead and explain that.

[@josephstevens9888]

Excellent video Paul..... one of your very best! I can remember being a very impressionable six-year old watching the ghostly images of Armstrong and Aldrin along with my brothers, sisters, and cousins from the living room of my Aunt and Uncle's house. Looking back now, it is really amazing that I watched live an event that will be remembered by humanity not just hundreds of years from now, but tens of thousands of years from now. I find it amazing that the tapes that contained the raw footage of the first Lunar EVA was not immediately sent to the National Archives. However, that being said, I have served in both the military and the auto industry, and I can see how something like this could have occurred.

[@mrs6968]

Hello I've been watching for well over a year now and I love your uploads and shirts I was just wondering where does your love for loud shirts come from and do you live in them or just put them on for videos? P.s your Apollo videos are always my favorite I'm still hoping one day you make a Nascar video. Thankyou for every second you spend making this content for the whole globe to enjoy

[@MrEazyE357]

Nascar?

[@mrs6968]

@@MrEazyE357 yes he's done motorsports videos in the past like top fuel dragsters so why not nascar

[@mrs6968]

@@MrEazyE357 fun fact Chrysler had a missile department engineer the fastest nascar ever during it's time the Plymouth superbird there's a crossover video idea right there. It was so fast from it's aero package that they banned it

[@your_utube]

Done very professionally and contains new things of much interest. Thanks indeed.

[@kentslocum]

This video was such a rollercoaster of emotions! First I was intrigued to learn that the moon landing was filmed in a slow-scan format that was higher quality than what was widely broadcast. Then I was jubilant that the original transmission was recorded to tape. I couldn't wait to see that version. Then I was devastated to learn the tapes were erased and overwritten. I am in mourning.

[@yassassin6425]

What precisely were you expecting from "that version" that differs from anything else? Footage of a "higher quality than what was broadcast"?

[@kentslocum]

@@yassassin6425 Wouldn't you?

[@yassassin6425]

@@kentslocum I wouldn't make that statement no, because I actually understand what was erased.

[@kentslocum]

@@yassassin6425 There's almost asways a loss in quality whenever a video is converted from one format to another, unless the new format is truly lossless, with higher resolution and higher framerate. So even though I understand what was lost, I still would have liked to have seen the recordings of the original video signal, before it was re-recorded for television and broadcast. While the quality wouldn't have been much better, it would certainly have been an improvement, especially given modern methods of archival video recording and preservation.

[@yassassin6425]

@@kentslocum There appears to be huge confusion over this, no doubt perpetuated by online conspiracy theorists and grifters. The 'original' recordings that you are referring to are simply back up tapes comprising raw analogue video transmitted via unified S Band during the Apollo 11 mission which was at some point erased. The tapes were made using specially designed, high-capacity recording equipment in order to capture the raw transmissions at source in case anything should go wrong with the process used to convert them to a standard broadcast signal which would have needed to be done anyway. Once the conversion and transmission was complete, the recordings were no longer needed for their original purpose. Any magnetic recording media has a limited life. The magnetic fields of the stored data decay over time. For this reason, and because high-grade tapes were very expensive, they were never considered an archival medium. The data on those tapes, including video data were relayed to the Manned Spacecraft Center during the mission. The video was recorded there and in other locations; there is no missing video footage from the Apollo 11 moonwalk. There was no video that came down slow scan that was not relayed live, to Houston and fed live to the world. During the search for the magnetic tapes, the team came across broadcast-converted tapes that were far superior in quality to anything previously seen. There were tapes recorded in Sydney, Australia, during the Apollo 11 mission. They also found kinescopes at the National Archives that had not been viewed in 36 years that were made in Houston. Sifting through the CBS archives they further uncovered tapes that had been fed directly from Houston to CBS - the raw data as recorded and archived.

[@aurorajunior6328]

curiosmark uploded a video where he conected a simaler camra to an actual apollo transmiter/recever

[@Sonnell]

It would have been nice to mention the great YT channel, CuriousMarc. They restore original Apollo hardware, and present them in operation, including the camera systems.

[@439sparky1]

Paul, if you feel the need to make longer videos then please don't hold back. You say we want a lot of info in a short period of time, however, I would definitely watch a 3 hour documentary with you as the presenter any day of the week. The way you talk is just iconic, and of course, love the shirts!

[@soilsurvivor]

The MESA on Apollo 11 was deployed manually - by Armstrong - by pulling a D-ring lanyard to release the latches holding it in the closed position. It was not automatically deployed on landing.

[@MrT------5743]

It was also a few hours after landing when they stepped out onto the surface.

[@dansv1]

That’s a pretty big error by CD.

[@soilsurvivor]

@@MrT------5743 Yes. The D-ring was positioned so that he could reach it once he was about halfway down the ladder so that his last few steps on the ladder and first step on the Moon would be televised.

[@MrT------5743]

@@soilsurvivor I actually think the D ring was reachable from the porch before reaching the ladder.

[@jaminova_1969]

The 525 lines was for the PAL system. In the US, we used 480 lines / 30fps @ 60 HZ for NTSC. I'm still fascinated by this, as I was a baby when NASA landed on the Moon! I have a very clear memory of my Grandfather, a Television Repairman at night, and Machinist by day, bringing home a 19" Solid State B/W Panasonic set he bought just for the occasion!

[@tinyredgiant9915]

NTSC is 525 lines at 29.97 FPS. PAL is 625 lines at 25 FPS.

[@pleasureincontempt3645]

Such a wonderful deep dive. Prior to now, I had only considered the issues between NTSC and SECAM to be the only reason why most Amercians couldn’t really appreciate UK television shows. That said, both have serious merit and egos should be left aside. I like to think we’ve all grown-up a little; Completely terrified that tribalism continues to be a nuisance to humanity itself.

[@bobroberts2371]

Lots of Brit shows were on USA TV.

[@andersjjensen]

@@bobroberts2371 Because the recording standards were the same. But they needed to be broadcast in NTSC for US TVs to show them right.

[@mspysu79]

The UK used PAL for analog broadcasting, France used SECAM.

[@rob5944]

Ironic, when you consider that a in-built instinct was once an essential one.

[@mspysu79]

@@bobroberts2371 Not really in the early days, the most common show was Monty Python's Flying Circus, which aired on PBS. It was converted from PAL to NTSC using analog standards converters (mainly using analog delay lines and matrix encoders) before being recorded on an NTSC videotape and then being sent to the US. It was not until 1972 that the BBC developed the first digital standards converter and it took until the 90's that digital converters became common. hence the explosion of britoms onto American tv first from Lionheart Television then later BBC America.

[@terrypussypower]

I watched all 6 of the moon landings live on TV! The first one was *very* exciting because I was only 10 yrs old, and it was the first! But the next 5 for me, were even *more* exciting as I was getting older and could more fully understand what was actually happening. But that Apollo 11 landing is seared into my brain as it was on all day, and during 1969, to have ANY single subject on TV all day, was an event in itself as there was only 3 channel’s available in the UK at that time!

[@GRPLiningServices]

You didn’t watch anything live. It was all done in a studio. Like that camera could track the thing blasting off the moon and track it perfectly. Really? 1969 remember.

[@terrypussypower]

@@GRPLiningServices Good grief! There’s one always moron….and today you’re it! Moon landing deniers are right down there with flat Earthers, Creationists, evolution deniers and anti-vaxxers on the list of scientific illiterates.

[@terrypussypower]

@@GRPLiningServices And btw, that “camera tracking thing” only happened on the final two missions, IN 1972!….NOT in 1969! I mean, if you don’t even know basic stuff like that, then you’ve obviously done no research worth talking about. Just pathetic.

[@jkholtgreve]

It’s a joy to watch the archived broadcasts on KZbin, even if they’ve largely gone through a few generations of analog tape and aren’t in quite the state they were on first broadcast. The tension is still just as palpable, especially with 11 and 13. Highly recommend any NASA fan take a few Saturdays and go through them, then watch a documentary or two on Orion to get angry about what could’ve followed on.

[@MrMegaMetroid]

@@GRPLiningServices the russian luna 15 probe was tracking the progress of Apollo 11 the entire time, and even delayed their sample return mission to confirm the Moonlanding.

[@sphinxtheeminx]

Everyone knows Neil Armstrong actually said 'That's one small step for man, one Swiss dinosaur in Polly Gosling's anorak hood'. According to Kevin Eldon. And he's never wrong.

[@terrypussypower]

Kevin Eldon rules!

[@cool78666]

Step for”a” man

[@MrT------5743]

@@cool78666 Neil himself believes he did not say the "a" when he heard the recording. He did intend to say it.

[@aemrt5745]

I heard in the Ohio twang the 'a' is sometimes lost in speech.

[@MrT------5743]

@@aemrt5745 I would think the best person to analyze speech would be the person speaking. And Neil himself said did not say the 'a'.

[@dominicwalker1899]

Great content Paul - thanks so much for making such a well researched and paced video. Addicted to watching your content!

[@paulogden7417]

There is no temperature in space as we know it. Our understanding of temperature is based on natural convection which is totally absent in the vacuum of space. There is only radiation cooling and heating. Designing for these factors is very different than designing for convection. It would not have been possible to design a camera to the power and weight constraints of Apollo if space really had the “temperatures” you stated.

[@DeputyNordburg]

I am not really sure what you mean here. Things in space certainly have temperatures. When discussing the moon surface temperatures are often quoted. Some people think this is like an air temperature on Earth, but it's not, it's just the temperature of the Soil. The thing about designing space equipment is simulating the space environment is really easy. A vacuum chamber and some spot lights. Anything sent on Apollo was tested this way again and again before being sent. There is only radiation cooling and heating. And reflecting heat away before absorbing it. And if you are discussing the space craft or space suits, add evaporation and sublimation.

[@frankgulla2335]

Paul, a great tour of the world of 1960s video technology without getting bogged down in the technology. Thank you.

[@Ten28film]

Keep up the great work!!!

[@ISpillSprite]

With these videos getting into the small details of the Apollo program, I'd love to see an episode on the food of Apollo from you.

[@Jan_Strzelecki]

Seconded.

[@HumourDownUnder]

I'm just thankful I was alive at the time of the Apollo Moon landings! It was an amazing thing to witness, no doubt about it!

[@shaneb6004]

It certainly was a great event to witness , we seemed to have slighter clearer tv images in Australia of the Apollo 11 moon landing and surface activities .I guess that was due to having a more direct relay out of our tracking stations to the tv stations across the country .

[@simon8864]

Another brilliant documentary this time about something I had not thought twice about. Keep up the great work!

[@AwesomeShotStudios]

Thank you for this. As a video producer myself, the technology side fascinates me as much as the historical side. And FWIW, my first camera was a tube camera (Plumbicon tube). I was also under orders to avoid pointing it at bright point-source lights (and never at the sun).

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

FWIW: I always thought the _live_ remotely-controlled color video broadcasts from the Apollo 15 - 17 rovers were the _best_ at catching the activities of the astronauts on the moon.

[@paulstein6971]

Thanks, Paul for the video. One thing I would like to point out as a slight error. Going from shadow to direct sunlight in space would be a quick change not instant. At one au we get about 1000 watts per square meter. So rapidly cooking things yes. But going from sunlight into shadow would not cool as fast as the heating cycle. As to only having one if the three possible ways to lose heat, radiation.

[@dukenukem8381]

We never went to the Earth.

[@AssistantCoreAQI]

This Is A Canon Duke Quote.

[@Shrek_Has_Covid19]

air is fake

[@ionostro]

great show! thanks, Greetings from Chile SouthAmerica.

[@dadecoza]

CuriousMarc is reverse engineering the Apollo radio transmitters that transmitted the broadcast and Curious Droid is giving us background on the actual video/camera equipment used ... thanks for the awesome Apollo content *curious* ones!

[@mikewilliams6467]

For the interested here is the playlist of CuriousMarcs Apollo S-Band Communications work kzbin.info/aero/PL-_93BVApb58SXL-BCv4rVHL-8GuC2WGb

[@alextyndyuk]

Just realized how much alike Gagarin and Armstrong look like... Funny, never thought that before.

[@bradwooldidge6979]

I’ve noticed that too.

[@hrtbrk1]

Wish they had 8k recording with them during the moon landing. What a sight to behold.

[@caav56]

Artemis missions might have something like this.

[@rubenoteiza9261]

Don't worry, the Chinese and/or the Russian will have them when they go, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY.

[@ArKritz84]

@@rubenoteiza9261 So you do believe that it CAN be done, just not that it HAS been done?

[@zounds010]

They had 16mm film cameras and Hasselblad 6x6 photo cameras. The quality of those photos is stunning. The film footage is not on the same level, but still a lot better than the live TV footage.

[@davefellhoelter1343]

Remember "Our expectations" are low at this time. Most of U.S. watched Black and White TV with Snow! Happily in the Day. WE Absolutely thought these shots to be Perfectly GREAT! Considering it was "THE MOON"!!

[@fishie3799]

Hell, I was born in '94 and grew up with the rise of HD and UHD digital cameras, and I'm still impressed at how they were able to get these monochrome TV cameras up to the Moon in the 60s. I think it looks great, all things considered. Such cool technology!

[@nmccw3245]

The broadcast was better than the clapped out old portable B&W set my mom made me watch it on when I was four.

[@513895]

great content. fun to watch. your one of the best. 👍

[@panther105]

Not exactly alien technology, but you have to admit they were pushing the boundaries, taking chances with new, unproven tech and displaying genius moves at every step.

[@ArKritz84]

Well, they were taking incremental steps all through project mercury, gemini program and apollo program, without which they could probably never have reached the moon. Even the Apollo 1 disaster contributed heavily to the eventual safety of the landings. But sure, there were huge innovations all the way, and still unknowns, and a certain level of risk too.

[@morskojvolk]

Keep up the fantastic work, Paul! Anything that brings out this many Moon hoaxers _has_ to be good.

[@BertLensch]

Crazy to think that less than 30 years later entire camera assemblies were 75 mm x 75 mm x 50 mm in size, including the fisheye lens, for 720p resolution. Now they are packaged on a single chip with 4K resolution.

[@Crashed131963]

Crazy to think a 48 year old person was not born when the last moon landing happened. More people on the Earth today never were alive than were alive on the last moon landing.

[@westondoesit6127]

Fantastic job on documenting all this!!

[@iPig]

I'd love to see a little series of videos about the film cameras of the Apollo and shuttle programs.

[@mmickle6191]

That footage is awesome. I think we fail to appreciate that these days. Glad they didn't bother with color footage. We wouldn't have been too much color to see.

[@ArKritz84]

The later Apollo missions had color video, and there definitely was value to it.

[@nguyendailam6703]

Whenever I hear cameras on the moon I think of Al Bean !

[@antoninbesse795]

Paul your videos are so interesting and well researched - there’s something “solid and well-made” about them! Thank you, and keep’ em coming for your 1m+ subscribers.

[@EVRose60]

Awesome presentation as usual!

[@FancyPantsFiles]

Thank god for sponsor block! Great video

[@TheRumpusView]

That was superbly informative.

[@marklatimer7333]

All that money and all those clever people and nobody thought "Lens Cap?".

[@ronbennett7885]

I'm sure the engineers did. Generally, if something wasn't in the specs, it wasn't provided. Maybe there was a cap and it wasn't used. If so, then a lack of training. My hunch is there wasn't a cap, since that could be difficult to manipulate with gloves in space. Fortunately, there were later landings that captured much video without mishap.

[@mikecowen6507]

It had a flip open lens cap. The whole thing was a simple brain fart by a guy *standing* on the surface of the moon with just a few other thoughts in his head.

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

Laughs in $2 billion B-2 that doesn't even have a $20 matress for 18+ hr flights

[@pastelskies8466]

Your videos are very educational. Like lessons within lessons per your video titles. Bravo! Do you have a background in television electronics? Who made/ground the camera optics?

[@BGraves]

I'm sure the politicians wanted to make sure that we showed the world with transparency what a free nation can do which was a slap in the face to the USSR who was doing all of their space stuff in private. In other words, it was our video of people walking on the moon in stark contrast to the beeping of Sputnik.

[@echodelta9]

Was that an earthquake in Russia?

[@PoliticalCineaste]

The Westinghouse Color Camera flew in all Command Modules from Apollo 10 onwards. In fact NASA was still using the Westinghouse color camera in the early 1980s for the Space Shuttle. So even on Apollo 11, the color TV transmissions from the Command Module were the Westinghouse camera. The biggest improvement that the RCA lunar camera brought besides being able to be aimed at the sun, was gamma control. It was a big improvement over the Westinghouse color camera.

[@salaseivastajat]

Thanks this is exacly what I have been waiting for

[@Wadethewallaby2001]

Why does KZbin have to ruin everything by putting that thing on the bottom of the description?

[@TheFreshSpam]

Top video as usual

[@gpstenholm23]

Another entertaining and informative video. Thanks Paul, and congratulations on hitting 1 million subs mate o/

[@bjoernphotography]

Like always - brilliant!

[@fsphil]

The colour cameras on Apollo all used 525-lines - essentially identical to an NTSC signal but without the colour sub-carrier, the colour instead being sent with the field sequential system. Since it shared the same timings as a regular TV signal it was (relatively) simple to convert it back to NTSC.

[@Robslondon]

Brilliant video. Keep up the great work.

[@damianp7313]

Glad you're not running out of fascinating topics Paul

[@barrymayson2492]

Watched it live , it was early hours of the morning I was just a kid barely able to keep my eyes open!!!

[@GianniBarberi]

It's since i was under 10 that I wanted to know this, I remember the improved camera, and the TV commentator calling it Eye camera

[@mdavid1955]

Never knew this stuff..pretty cool tech for the time. When was the 1st digital video camera used in space?

[@waywardscythe3358]

I think Scott Manely touches on that in his video about space cameras.

[@user-yv2sc5qv7x]

Excellent descriptions and comparisons of all systems used...or not used!

[@maddslothii2532]

on the plus side it was discovered 2 of the missing Dr Who episodes were recorded on the Apollo tapes.

[@DinizFreddie]

Alan, just don't point it at the Sun, you remember, right? [A few seconds later] Alan, you're not coming back. Don't argue.

[@jerrysinclair3771]

Ham radio operators were playing around with SSTV in the 1960s. It made for a lot of interesting conversations over 1000s of KM / miles.

[@LavaLahaie]

im really enjoying your enriching videos and love those wild shirts and that wicked slick dome of yours :) keep up the great work. im from montreal over here in the french part of canada. congratulations on achieving the million mark in subs eh...

[@Beaula2]

Ide love to see a similar video detailing the cameras/camera shielding setups used to take that erie slow motion footage of muscular bombs hitting targets like tests houses and cars! Great content! Been enjoying for years! Cheers!

[@dansv1]

Those nuclear bombs were pretty muscular.

[@billyyank2198]

That color camera is kind of an electronic-mechanical hybrid. The spinning color wheel was the same kind of technology used on mechanical color TVs.

[@fixman88]

Single Chip RCA DLP video projectors also used a color wheel.

[@zinussan50]

When I was a kid, i always thought Buzz Aldrin get out first to take photo of Neil Armstrong climbing down the LEM. 😂 hahaha

[@sarcasmo57]

I still do all my videos with the old Apollo cameras.

[@Flightcoach]

Great and interesting video! I just dont get what you say at 4:50 you seem to define the transmission bandwith in mhz, i thought that was a measure for speed/frequency? Did you mean 4-5mbit?

[@Jan_Strzelecki]

At the beginning of the information era, the transmission bandwith was indeed defined in mhz, before we invented modern terminology.

[@DeputyNordburg]

4-5mbit is digital. This was analog.

[@brettpalfrey4665]

Thank you for this! It will be very interesting to see how modern HD TV will look from the Lunar surface, when we go back...

[@ArKritz84]

Probably 16k or 32k by the time we get there. 😂

[@MMTLP-JON]

Where ya been? KZbin hasn't given me any "Notifications" that you posted any Videos lately. What were you on Vaca....🤣👍

[@divarachelenvy]

fascinating as usual. cheers.

[@maximilliancunningham6091]

I worked for a man, who had previously landed a contract to digitally process and enhance the video images from later Apollo missions. The picture quality on the earlier landings left a lot to be desired.

[@user2144]

Very informative and interesting

[@stevearmstrong4561]

My dad would have loved this.

[@a2roland]

Thanks!

[@edibleapeman2]

Any chance of a video like this except covering the cameras used on recent probes? Thank you! This episode was great.

[@sprint955st]

Entertaining movie “The Dish” tells a story about this

[@jons2614]

Great movie, enjoyed it very much!!!

[@televisionbb]

Great video. What is called a Secondary Electron Conduction Camera Tube with a photo multiplyer used on Apollo 11 is in fact a development of the Farnsworth image dissector tube. And you remembered - in writing at least - that the color wheel was invented by John Logie Baird - a fact mentioned by Dr. Peter Goldmark in his patents for the CBS color system.

[@mikecowen6507]

What was missed is the tube was a Top Secret device used in Vietnam for night vision scopes. NASA used the tube in the open and didn't tell anyone it was Secret. Nobody noticed otherwise. True story!

[@brett4264]

Did they use a wide angle lens for Neil's step-off? Seems like the camera was too close to fit everything in.

[@mururoa7024]

Excellent presentation as usual. 👍

[@rob5944]

The description of all that technology over 50 years later from when it was used, just blew my mind like the sun did that camera (and it destroyed quite a few conspiracy theories too)!