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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 unregistered
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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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