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Topic: Apollo quiz
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ALAIN
Member Posts: 355
From: GENT, Belgium
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 12-05-2002 12:42 AM
  
The first three Lunar Orbiters were specifically tasked to track down
landing sites, while the fourth and fifth were more generalized in their
survey efforts. Yet, all five Lunar Orbiters were designed expressly to
gather extensive photographic maps of the moon, a task that NASA found had
one serious technical obstacle to overcome: no viable photographic system.So NASA had to create a portable, self-contained, durable, automated
photographic apparatus that could adequately survey the moon, develop its
film stock, scan those images into a television signal, and transmit those
scans back to Earth. This photographic unit also had to survive the
rigors of a trip into lunar orbit and fit into the tiny, unforgiving spaces
of a space probe. Lucky for NASA, a CBS engineer who had gained fame for his technological
innovations on behalf of the radio and television industries stepped up
to devise just such a scanning photographic array. WHICH HOLLYWOOD PIONEER DEVELOPED THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SCANNING SYSTEM USED
IN THE LUNAR ORBITERS?
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BLACKARROW
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posted 12-05-2002 06:19 PM
I'm afraid I can't answer your question, but your description of the Lunar Orbiter photographic system (using actual photographic film automatically processed in lunar orbit) certainly makes a nonsense of the "Moon hoax" claims that photographic film taken to the Moon would be fogged by the "intense radiation" in space. |
randy
Member Posts: 2176
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 12-05-2002 07:06 PM
It was the Eastman Kodak company, I believe. | |
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