Neil Armstrong The Moon Missions Channel

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...

Schmitt, the last men to stand on the moon's surface left to return to Earth but if no one else is there, who's operating the camera as it pans up to follow the ascent module and I'll give you a clue it's not Stanley Kubrick. The view is actually from a video camera mounted on the lunar rover which remains on the moon to this day remotely operated by ground control via the large high gain antenna on the rover itself. The shot was meticulously planned and time to account for a 1.2 second delay in the radio signal across the 384,000 kilometers or 238,000 miles from the moon to the earth. NASA had contracted American company RCA to design a portable camera that could film the astronauts during their Rover excursions. At the time broadcast cameras were bulky and heavy but RCA's camera was about the size of a loaf of bread and weighed 2 kilograms or 4 and a half pounds a captured video at a resolution of 320 by 200 pixels at a rate of 10 frames per se...