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Topic: Aviation Week & Space Technology: Apollo 11
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LM-12
Member Posts: 3207
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 02-14-2015 02:19 PM
  
Apollo 11 made the cover story of Aviaton Week & Space Technology magazine eight times in mid-1969. Notice that the ascent stage photo is oriented correctly. You don't see that too often. Aviation Week has covered scores of technological triumphs over its history, but no achievement received as much prominence as the Apollo 11 moon landing.How big of a story was it? The mission was featured on the cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology for eight out of nine weeks in the summer of 1969, a span stretching from June 30 to Aug. 25. The spacecraft launched on July 16, and astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin set foot on the lunar surface on July 20. The sole exception: the July 21 issue, which appears to have gone to press just before the launch. Its cover featured a line of Lockheed C-5A military cargo transports. |
David C
Member Posts: 1014
From: Lausanne
Registered: Apr 2012
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posted 02-14-2015 04:54 PM
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Originally posted by LM-12:
Notice that the ascent stage photo is oriented correctly. You don't see that too often.
Well that depends entirely on your perspective. North up is conventional for Northern hemisphere cartographers. Some residents of the Southern hemisphere may disagree. I think that the most important perspective though would be that of the crew. And in lunar orbit I would think local horizontal/local vertical (as usually published), is "correct." Mike Collins took the picture and published a similar one from the same sequence in his book in LVLH, so I guess that's his opinion of correct. |
Terence
Member Posts: 32
From: England
Registered: Mar 2008
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posted 02-14-2015 05:51 PM
I believe that LM-12 was referring to the fact that many pictures of the LM are shown (printed) reversed i.e. mirrored. I'd guess that more are printed wrong than correct, even NASA footage in documentaries show it mirrored! |
David C
Member Posts: 1014
From: Lausanne
Registered: Apr 2012
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posted 02-14-2015 11:15 PM
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Originally posted by Terence:
I believe that LM-12 was referring to the fact that many pictures of the LM are shown (printed) reversed
Well that would be neither very interesting or surprising for AW&ST as an industry publication. As you hint, one could give a huge number of examples where NASA images have been printed back to front - and of course printed the right way round. All that shows is that many type-setters seem to have no clue of what they are looking at, and the results seems to be random. I think most of us have known that for years - as in 45+ years. It is weird how the NASA PR department often got it wrong though.
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LM-12
Member Posts: 3207
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 02-15-2015 04:04 AM
Are the crews and landing sites mentioned in the Apollo 12-20 article? |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3207
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 02-15-2015 06:44 AM
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Originally posted by Terence:
even NASA footage in documentaries show it mirrored
The 16mm DAC has a right-angle mirror lens attachment. If that is on the camera while filming, wouldn't the images in the footage be reversed? This accessory, when attached to the bracket-mounted 16-mm camera and lens, facilitates photography through the spacecraft rendezvous windows along a line of sight parallel to the CM X-axis with a minimum of interference to the crewmen. |
cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 02-16-2015 04:27 AM
And Aviation Week never reprinted those articles in one (or more) volume? They did so for STS-1 and STS-51L. |
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