posted 08-18-2019 04:06 AM
I've read that because more people needed to see the contents of projection plotters and consoles that were actually available, some plotters/consoles in the MCC had cameras focused on them and were then distributed via televisions.
Are there any images of this hybrid system in action?
Buel Member
Posts: 653 From: UK Registered: Mar 2012
posted 08-19-2019 04:23 PM
This from Jerry Bostick:
Most SSRs had a small table with a camera vertically above it. If you put a graph or anything else that you wanted to show to others, they could call up the channel number and see it.
Hope this helps.
RobertB Member
Posts: 168 From: Israel Registered: Nov 2012
posted 08-20-2019 11:28 AM
I was hoping to see this in action
oly Member
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posted 08-20-2019 07:21 PM
Are you referring to the graph plots and data lines displayed on the screens at the mission controllers consoles and also projected on the large screens within mission control?
The small mission controller console screens were televisions, used to display information from a remote location. Personal computers and monitors had not yet been developed.
RobertB Member
Posts: 168 From: Israel Registered: Nov 2012
posted 08-21-2019 02:08 AM
Most SSRs had a small table with a camera vertically above it.
I'd like to see a picture of the small table with the camera pointed at the SSR.
Buel Member
Posts: 653 From: UK Registered: Mar 2012
posted 08-25-2019 03:13 PM
Update here from Gerry Griffin;
I'm not sure what he means by "consoles"... we never projected pictures of a MCC console on TV. I do remember seeing projected images of strip chart plotters on a screen on the front wall of the MOCR (the "Eidophor" system could back-project a TV on the front wall screens). It was only done when there was something of general interest/curiosity, like an SIVB stage of the Saturn hitting the moon and shaking the seismograph sensors set in place by a previous crew on the moon... or a crew splashing down in the ocean and getting to the carrier, etc.