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Old December 25th 03, 10:28 AM
Martin Dunn
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"Rick DeNatale" wrote in message
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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:17:32 +0000, Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:

Yes. Specifically it's a fictionalized account of the activities at

the
radio dish in Australia that received the first images of Neil on the

Moon.

For the "historically accurate" account of Parkes observatory's role in
Apollo 11 see http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/apollo11/

(and being in Australia explains why the first images of Neil are upside
down. :-)


Nice joke, but in reality, the initial feed was alternating from the
statins in Goldstone California and Honeysuckle Australia, both of which
had neglected to correctly set the switch on their scan converters which
would flip the image vertically, which was necessary because the camera
was mounted upside down in the MESA. The image needed to be flipped again
when Armstrong took the camera out and mounted it on a tripod on the lunar
surface.

The Parkes feed wasn't used until about nine minutes after the TV camera
was switched on when it was realized that they had by far the best signal
of the three ground stations receiving the transmission. Had Parkes been
used from the beginning, we would never have seen the upside down image
since they had the inversion switch correctly set.


Following the release of The Dish, the Commonwealth Scientific and
Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) commissioned a great paper defining
the reality of the Apollo 11 transmission receptions, On Eagle's Wings
http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/apollo11/. All of which goes to prove my
thesis that the best thing about historical fiction is that it can garner
interest in history (and those who criticise it as a historical document
have made a mistake).

Martin


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Old December 25th 03, 11:21 AM
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David Lesher wrote:

Query:

What was the first recovery to have live video from the carrier?


Wasn't that Gordo's Mercury flight?

The first to have video from the chopper?


Dunno - one of the Geminis?


David
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Old December 25th 03, 11:25 AM
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Pat Flannery wrote:

It has that very interesting and solid-looking brick building as its
base...which looks strange, as if it had been built on something left
over from the 1800's...a Martello Tower to house a heavy gun to repel
Napoleon's expected invasion of Australia perhaps?


A serious concern at the time for a young British colony and yes,
fortifications were built to face not only the naughty French, but also
later the naughty Russians (this is also in the 19th century, during the
war in the Crimea, IIRC).

As for Parkes, they'd have to be *really* *big* guns, when you consider
just how far inland Parkes is...

I think the Parkes base building is brick-chicken-house strong to
survive the stresses caused by the sail area of the dish itself. The
base structures of the dishes at the CDSCC near Tidbinbilla are also
considerably robust.


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Old December 25th 03, 07:47 PM
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Dave Downing wrote:

In that case Pat, you should try to get your hands on the DVD. There is
much more than just the usual "didn't we have a great time shooting this
movie" type of cast and crew interviews for the bonus material.


Bonues material? My copy has theatrical trailer and cast & crew bios.
That's it.

Did I get a cheapo version? Is there a Special Extended Directors
Edition with Added Scenes and redone special effects?

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