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T O P I C R E V I E WALAINThe first three Lunar Orbiters were specifically tasked to track downlanding sites, while the fourth and fifth were more generalized in theirsurvey efforts. Yet, all five Lunar Orbiters were designed expressly togather extensive photographic maps of the moon, a task that NASA found hadone serious technical obstacle to overcome: no viable photographic system.So NASA had to create a portable, self-contained, durable, automatedphotographic apparatus that could adequately survey the moon, develop itsfilm stock, scan those images into a television signal, and transmit thosescans back to Earth. This photographic unit also had to survive therigors 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 technologicalinnovations on behalf of the radio and television industries stepped upto devise just such a scanning photographic array.WHICH HOLLYWOOD PIONEER DEVELOPED THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SCANNING SYSTEM USEDIN THE LUNAR ORBITERS?BLACKARROWI'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. randyIt was the Eastman Kodak company, I believe.
So NASA had to create a portable, self-contained, durable, automatedphotographic apparatus that could adequately survey the moon, develop itsfilm stock, scan those images into a television signal, and transmit thosescans back to Earth. This photographic unit also had to survive therigors 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 technologicalinnovations on behalf of the radio and television industries stepped upto devise just such a scanning photographic array.
WHICH HOLLYWOOD PIONEER DEVELOPED THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SCANNING SYSTEM USEDIN THE LUNAR ORBITERS?
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