> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Mark Roberts > > Tom C wrote: > > >http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at- > nasa/2006/19jul_seaoftr > >anquillity/ > > > >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. >
They could have got one of the props guys just off set to take some pictures. B -- 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.
