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Topic: Apollo 11's PLSS Jettison on TV
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tfrielin
Member Posts: 162
From: Athens, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 08-01-2007 10:51 AM
  
Despite the fact that I watched the Apollo 11 moonwalk live in 1969 and despite the fact that back in the '90s I had video tapes made by the JSC archivists of all the lunar surface TV transmissions (in my then capacity as an academic library director) and despite the fact that I now own the Spacecraft Films DVD Apollo 11 collection, I have yet to see the video of the jettison of the PLSSs from the LEM at the end of that historic moonwalk. In 1969, I went to bed before the jettison, so I missed it. I expected it to be on the JSC tapes, as I had specifically requested all the unedited footage, but it was not included, nor is it on the DVDs. I know the TV was still on and it captured the jettison as per the transcripts on the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal: 114:18:31 McCandless: Roger, Tranquility. We observed your equipment jettison on the TV, and the passive seismic experiment recorded shocks when each PLSS hit the surface. Over. So can anyone point me to a source that has this video? Please don't tell me that NASA erased this part of the video; I'd just like to see it after all these years. |
Matt T
Member Posts: 1369
From: Chester, Cheshire, UK
Registered: May 2001
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posted 08-01-2007 11:01 AM
From the Honeysuckle Creek 8mm recordings, cited as possibly the only surviving source for this footage (scroll to the bottom of the page). |
tfrielin
Member Posts: 162
From: Athens, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 08-01-2007 11:24 AM
Thanks so very much for that. I guess now, thirty eight years later, I've seen all of Apollo 11. |
tfrielin
Member Posts: 162
From: Athens, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 08-06-2007 07:51 AM
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Originally posted by Matt T:
From the Honeysuckle Creek 8mm recordings, cited as possibly the only surviving source for this footage
If this film of the PLSS jettison is really the only surviving footage of the event, that must mean that not only did NASA not retain this footage, but the television networks of the time (ABC, NBC, and CBS) also did not retain it. I remember in 1989, for the twentieth anniversary of Apollo 11, one of the networks (CBS, if I recall correctly) re-ran the TV coverage of Apollo 11 as exactly as it aired in 1969. They ran the liftoff coverage on July 16 and the landing and moonwalk coverage on July 20, 1989. So at least one network kept the video at least that long. I taped it in 1989, but don't think I still have it. I do admit that about two and a half hours of a static shot of the LEM go by before the astronauts jettison the PLSSs and some other bag (presumably garbage) but at the very least, that last event should have been preserved, if not the entire static two hours between them re-entering the LEM and this final action. Oh, well, maybe those missing tapes will show up some day and we'll all get to see the higher res video. In the meantime, I think I'll add "The Dish" to my Netflix queue... |
Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2272
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 08-13-2007 12:57 AM
It was the ABC news footage that was aired in "Apollo 11, As It Happened". I don't think they aired everything completely though, but it was over six hours of coverage with probably two hours of it being the lunar surface TV coverage. I wished I had taped it, but forgot to when PBS aired it that day. |
ea757grrl
Member Posts: 732
From: South Carolina
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 08-13-2007 09:31 AM
A&E re-ran the NBC coverage on July 16, 1989 (launch), July 20-21, 1989 (moonwalk) and July 24, 1989 (splashdown) as part of the short-lived "As It Happened" series, which began on Nov. 22, 1988 with rebroadcast of NBC's coverage of the Kennedy assassination. Correspondents featured in the A&E rebroadcast of NBC's Apollo 11 coverage included Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Frank McGee, Peter Hackes, Floyd Kalber and others.On the 25th anniversary of Apollo 11 in 1994, many PBS stations broadcast six edited hours of the ABC coverage of Apollo 11, from launch to splashdown. Correspondents on the ABC coverage included Frank Reynolds, Jules Bergman, Tom Jarriel and a young Peter Jennings. I have tapes of both the NBC and ABC coverage in my collection; the NBC coverage has the A&E "As It Happened" bumpers and supers, while the ABC coverage has a PBS station ID super on it at several points. |
Dwight
Member Posts: 577
From: Germany
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted 12-02-2007 07:24 AM
While watching the MSC Reports DVD from SFC I stumbled upon something that caused me to sit up: Mark has inadvertently uncovered the televised PLSS dump as covered by the 1969 Jan-Jul report. It is only around 10 seconds long, but is nonetheless on the set in fairly decent quality. | |
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