Tom C wrote: >http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/19jul_seaoftranquillity/ > >Short entertaining story of the first manned lunar landing. I remember >watching it live when I was 8 years old. My Dad telling the kids to >sit down and be quiet because this was important. > >It simply amazes me that 1) the original video tapes were lost and 2) >Buzz Aldrin did not take the camera and get an image of Neil Armstrong >on the lunar surface. All the still image photography was done by Neil >Armstrong of Buzz Aldrin.
I believe the camera (a specially-modified Hasselblad) was mounted to the front of the space suit, so swapping it from one astronaut to another would be no simple trick. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
