Re: Camelot on the Moon - From Our Archives

Eleven years ago in the Digest, we paid homage to an event which

> happened a quarter-century before that: American astronauts walking > on the moon. Now it has been 36 years since that event which > occupied our attention during the hot summer of July, 1969. The > principal contributor to the Digest with a report on _his_ part > in that historic event was Don Kimberlin ...

There are 2 anomalies with Kimberlin's story, as I read it.

(1) > Problem: Fragile Telecom Link

What many people don't know is that it came very close being a > failure. And at the very last moment, the last possible launch window > for a lunar mission in the 1960's was almost missed.

If the July, 1969 flight of Apollo 11 was the "last possible launch window for a lunar mission in the 1960's", then how did Apollo 12 take place between 11/14/1969 and 11/24/1969 ?

(2) ... as well as numerous mentions of "NASA color video and sound we were all observing from the moon". While there was indeed capability for color video from the Command Module [at that point, in orbit around the moon tens of miles overhead], the transmissions from the Apollo 11 Lunar Module on the surface of the moon were monochrome.

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: As I recall, what we saw on television that night was entirely black and white. However, in the NASA archives (reached via this report in our telecom archives) there are many color photos of the same event; also you can see the certificate NASA awarded Don Kimberlin for his part in the project. PAT]
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