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model maker
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From: NEVADA , USA
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posted 07-16-2012 04:22 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for model maker     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Here is a video that shows the complete Apollo 17 lunar module's accent stage leaving the moon and instead of the footage stopping at a certain altitude, it continues to show pitchover and the accent stage flying along the lunar horizon until it disappears to a small speck.

I have never seen this complete footage and wanted to share it here for those who may have never seen it either.

Max Q
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posted 07-16-2012 04:50 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Max Q   Click Here to Email Max Q     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Never gets old.

Space Cadet Carl
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posted 07-17-2012 06:21 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Space Cadet Carl   Click Here to Email Space Cadet Carl     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
To this day, camera controller Ed Fendell still regrets not being able to follow the ascent stage for longer than he did. I think he did a good job holding the shot as long as he did because of the time delay he had to anticipate and deal with. Fendell deserved the Emmy Award he was later presented with.

garymilgrom
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posted 07-17-2012 08:36 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for garymilgrom   Click Here to Email garymilgrom     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
One of the Apollo books has a great quote on this type of coverage. Paraphrasing,

"If you had told ancient people we would one day send men to the moon, they would have believed you. If you told them we would have live color movies of the event, they would not have believed you - they would think you're some kind of magician or shaman".

mikej
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posted 07-17-2012 05:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mikej   Click Here to Email mikej     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The quote is from Spacecraft Films' Live From The Moon:
If, somehow, Galileo and Johannes Kepler, Sir Isaac Newton were to learn that humans had left the surface of the Earth and travelled into space, they would think, "That might be possible." If we would then tell them that we humans had captured images where the motion was captured as well, they would think, "That's a miracle."

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