The Parkes radio telescope dish in Australia also began transmitting once it was able to have line-of-sight contact with Apollo 11. At the last second, NASA switched from Goldstone to Honeysuckle for the world broadcast. Goldstone Observatory in California was also receiving the signal, but the picture was grainy and hard to make out. This change of plans meant that Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station in Australia was in the perfect position to relay the first few minutes of the transmission.
They couldn’t wait and requested to exit the Lunar Module ahead of schedule.
LUNAR LANDING DATES TV
Sketches of lunar surface activities including setup of TV camera, 1969Īfter successfully landing on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were supposed to sleep for a few hours.
The images were grainy and indistinct, but they represented a stunning breakthrough in broadcasting. In the cabin, Buzz Aldrin closed a circuit breaker, and black-and-white TV pictures of Armstrong’s ghostly form were beamed back to Earth. The umbrella-like antenna was lined with 38 miles of fine gold-plated wire, thinner than human hair, to reflect the signal 250,000 miles back to Earth. The image and sound signals were transmitted via a lightweight antenna on the top of the lander. To ensure it was able to record images of the mission, the small camera was specially equipped to deal with the high contrast between light and shade on the Moon.
Contained within it, surrounded by gold-coloured installation blankets, was the black-and-white Westinghouse television camera. Daily Herald Archive/Science Museum GroupĪs Neil Armstrong eased himself onto the ‘porch’ of the Lunar Module, he pulled open a storage assembly attached to the lander’s lower stage.
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