THIS IS HOW NASA SHOT THEIR ICONIC FOOTAGE OF APOLLO.
The shuttle program, shots taken that would be impossible for any human to see close up and personal and many of them were done long before we had miniature high-definition cameras and high-speed data links beaming the footage live from space so how did NASA film these incredible shots of Apollo the space shuttle and beyond. Apollo 11 Launch. Now as good as these look from an aesthetic point of view they weren't done just to wow the public, they had a very important engineering role and that was their primary purpose to show the engineers and scientists just what was going on at critical stages of the launch and in some cases like the shuttle Challenger and Columbia disasters they were key in finding out exactly what happened. The story of how these techniques were developed goes back to the very first long-range ballistic missile the V2, the world's first CCTV system was developed by Walter bruch in order to observe the rocket launches from a safe distanc...