UPI Wire Copy for A11 landing

....Someone forwarded this to me this morning. Source not cited, but
interesting reading, as well as a look back on the end of the Golden
Days of Radio:

(Damn thing's in all caps, so it'll look like a Min rant :-( )

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

UPI Broadcast Wire, 1969
CONTROL: "YOU'RE LOOKING GOOD AT EIGHT MINUTES."
-0-
SPEED 129 FEET PER SECOND.
-0-
P GROUND TELLS THEM: "EAGLE YOURE LOOKING GREAT."
ALTITUDE RIVE-THOUSAND-200 FEET.
-0-
GROUND SAYS: "YOU'RE GO FOR LANDING."
-0-
EAGLE SAYS WE'RE GO.!!
TWO-THOUSAND FEET!!
-0-
14-HUNDRED!!...
-0-
--540.....
400--FEET..
300-FEET..
220--FEET..
COMING DOWN NICELY.....
120--...
100--...
75..--
30 FEET PICKING UP SOME DUST..
ENGINE STOPPED...

FLASH!!!
THEY'VE LANDED!!!
UPI SPACE FLIGHT
RU317P 7/29CDT

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BULLETIN
(SPACE CENTER)--THE APOLLO--11 IS ON THE MOON.
ASTRONAUTS NEIL ARMSTRONG AND EDWIN ALDRIN HAVE SOFT-LANDED
THE EAGLE ON THE LUNAR SURFACE.
RU318P 7/29CDT

GROUND SAYS: "YOU'RE LOOKING GOOD."
-0-
THE TOUCHDOWN WAS 4:18 P-M
-0-
EAGLE REPORTS WE ARE VENTING.
-0-
COMMUNICATIONS GOOD WITH SOME LIGHT STATIC.
-0-
GROUND ADVISES COLUMBIA: "HE HAS LANDED AT TRANQUILITY BAY."
COLLINS SAID: "YEH. I HEARD THE WHOLE THING. FANTASTIC."
-0-
THERE SOON WILL BE A DECISION ON STAY-NO STAY.

(SUB APOLLO)
(SPACE CENTER)---THEY'VE LANDED ON THE MOON.
TWO MEN OF PLANET EARTH...IN A GANGLY-LOOKING
SPACECRAFT CALLED "EAGLE"...HAVE CONQUERED ONE OF THE TREASURES
OF SPACE.
APOLLO-11 ASTRONAUTS NEIL ARMSTRONG AND EDWIN ALDRIN
IN THEIR 17-TON LUNAR LANDER SUCCESSFULLY SOFT-LANDED ON THE
MOON'S SEA OF TRANQUILITY AT 4:18 P-M EDT.
"THE EAGLE HAS LANDED," ARMSTRONG SAID.
RU322P 7/20CDT..

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174UPR
FIFTEENTH WORLD IN BRIEF
-0-
THE FIRST MEN ON THE MOON...THE CONTINUING SAGA OF MAN'S GREATEST
ADVENTURE FROM THE WIRES OF U-P-I...

(INSERT HERE THE LATEST SUB APOLLO)
-0-
ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD...THESE OTHER ITEMS IN THE NEWS...

(EDGARTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS)---WHILE SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY RESTS
UNDER A DOCTOR'S CARE, POLICE PREPARE TO FILE CHARGES OF LEAVING
THE SCENE OF A FATAL ACCIDENT AGAINST HIM. AN ACCIDENT, IN WHICH
KENNEDY'S CAR WENT INTO A POND NEAR EDGARTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS AND
KILLED A WOMAN COMPANION, WAS NOT REPORTED BY KENNEDY UNTIL NINE
HOURS AFTER IT HAPPENED.
-0-
IN THE MIDEAST, THESE DEVELOPMENTS...

EGYPT CLAIMS TO HAVE SHOT DOWN 17 ISRAELI PLANES TODAY IN THE
HEAVIEST FIGHTING SINCE THE SIX-DAY 1967 MIDEAST WAR. ISRAEL ADMITTED
LOSING TWO PLANES AND SAID IT SHOT DOWN FIVE EGYPTIAN JETS IN
CLASHES ALONG THE SUEZ CANAL FRONT.
-0-
(SAIGON)---GENERAL EARLE WHEELER RULES OUT A COMPLETE U-S
WITHDRAWAL FROM VIETNAM BY THE END OF 1970. WHEELER, CHAIRMAN OF
THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF HAS BEEN TOURING VIETNAM. HE ALSO
DISCOUNTED THE MONTH-LONG LULL IN FIGHTING AS A COMMUNIST POLITICAL
GESTURE.
-0-
(PARIS)---THE PARIS PEACE TALKS ARE STALEMATED AGAIN...A FREEZE
EXPECTED TO CONTINUE UNTIL PRESIDENT NIXON RETURNS TO THE WHITE HOUSE
FROM HIS ASIAN TOUR.
-0-
(HAVANA)---EIGHT SOVIET WARSHIPS ARRIVED IN HAVANA TODAY ON AN
OFFICIAL VISIT TO CELEBRATE TWO NATIONAL HOLIDAYS...JULY 26,
THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION, AND THE FOLLOWING DAY,
RUSSIA'S NAVY DAY.
-0-
A CEASE-FIRE IS GENERALLY BEING OBSERVED IN CENTRAL AMERICA
WITH TEAMS FROM THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES POLICING THE
STOP IN THE SHOOTING BETWEEN EL SALVADOR AND HONDURAS.
-0-
(WASHINGTON)---FEDERAL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS ARE SIGNING AND
STOCKPILING RESIGNATIONS BECAUSE THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
RECENTLY THREATENED TO DISCIPLINE THEM FOR A SICK-CALL BOYCOTT LAST
MONTH.
-0-
(JODRELL BANK, ENGLAND)---RUSSIA'S LUNA-15 SATELLITE IS PASSING
OVER THE APOLLO-11 LANDING SITE AT AN ALTITUDE OF A LITTLE LESS
THAN 10 MILES...BUT THERE IS STILL NO CLUE AS TO ITS MISSION.
-0-
(FARRAGUT STATE PARK, IDAHO)---THOUSANDS OF SCOUTS ATTENDING
THEIR NATIONAL JAMBOREE AT FARRAGUT STATE PARK IN IDAHO CHEERED
LUSTILY WHEN THEY LEARNED FELLOW SCOUTS NEIL ARMSTRONG AND EDWIN
ALDRIN HAD LANDED ON THE MOON.
-0-
(WASHINGT0N)---WATCHING TELEVISION DURING THE MOON LANDING
PRESIDENT NIXON TERMED THE ACHIEVEMENT "THE GREATEST MOMENT OF
OUR TIME."
FK920P7/20CDT

U R G E N T

(SPACE CENTER)---THEY HAVE STARTED DE-PRESSURIZING THE EAGLE.

-0-

MORE DEPRESSURIZING URGENT X X X EAGLE.

THEY NOW HAVE ON THEIR PORTABLE LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS.

AS HE BEGAN DEPRESSURIZATION, ARMSTRONG SAID---"NOW

COMES THE GYMNASTICS."

FK931P7/20CDT

ALDRIN SAID "IT TAKES A LONG WAY TO GET ALL THE WAY DOWN

DOESN'T IT"---APPARENTLY REFERRING TO THE DE-PRESSURIZATION.

-0-

HATCH WILL BE OPENED WHEN PRESSURE GOES TO ZERO.

-0-

EAGLE REPORTS "NOW WE'LL SEE IF IT WILL OPEN UP."

-0-

ALDRIN REPORTED GETTING SOME STATIC.

-0-

ARMSTRONG SAID, "EVERYTHING IS GO WE'RE JUST WAITING FOR THE

PRESSURE TO GO LOW ENOUGH TO OPEN THE HATCH."

-0-

GROUND CONTROL SAID THEY SHOWED A RATHER STATIC PRESSURE IN THE

CABIN OF HATCH OPENING

-0-

B U L L E T I N

(SPACE CENTER)---THE HATCH IS OPEN ON THE LUNAR LANDER AND

NEIL ARMSTRONG IS READY TO CLIMB DOWN TO THE LUNAR SURFACE.

FK941PCD

GROUND CONTROL FED SOME DATA TO COLUMBIA.

-0-

THE ASTRONAUTS HAVE BEEN ON THEIR PORTABLE SUPPORT SYSTEMS NOW

FOR 17 MINUTES.

-0-

THE PORTABLES ARE GOOD FOR FOUR HOURS.

-0-

THE ASTRONAUTS ALSO HAVE A 30 MINUTE EMERGENCY OXYGEN SUPPLY.

-0-

ALDRIN REPORTS "OKAY MY WINDOW IS CLEAR."

-0-

EAGLE REPORTS ALL WINDOWS CLEAR.

-0-

ARMSTRONG GIVING READINGS.

-0-

ARMSTRONG IS NOW HOOKING UP HIS LUNAR EQUIPMENT CONVEYOR WHICH

WILL BE USED TO MOVE EQUIPMENT OFF THE LANDER.

-0-

ARMSTRONG IS NOW MOVING ONTO THE PLATFORM.

-0-

ALDRIN IS GIVING HIM DIRECTIONS TO CRAWL THROUGH THE NARROW

HATCH IN THE BULKY SPACE SUIT.

-0-

ALDRIN SAYS "YOU'RE NOT QUITE CLEARED AWAY. MOVE TO THE RIGHT A

LITTLE." ARMSTRONG SAYS "BELIEVE THAT'S OKAY"

-0-

ARMSTRONG "HOW'M I DOING."

ALDRIN "YOU'RE DOING FINE."

-0-

ALDRIN SAID "OKAY YOU WANT THOSE BAGS?"

ARMSTRONG SAID YES.

-0-

ARMSTRONG IS OUT

-0-

ARMSTRONG SAID "OKAY HOUSTON, I'M ON THE PORCH."

-0-

HE WILL NOW DESCEND THE LADDER SLOWLY AND START THE T-V CAMERA

BY PULLING A RING.

-0-

25 MINUTES OF LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS EXPENDED

-0-

ARMSTRONG SAYS "I'M GOING TO PULL THE RING."

-0-

THIS WILL OPEN STORAGE AREA WHERE CAMERA IS STORED.

-0-

RING IS TO BE PULLED ON SECOND RUNG OF THE LADDER.

-0-

THE T-V PICTURE IS ON.

-0-

VIEWERS COULD SEE WHAT APPEARED TO BE THE LUNAR LANDER LEG

WHICH AT FIRST WAS SHOWN UPSIDE DOWN. PICTURE NOW REVERSED.

-0-

ARMSTRONG COULD BE SEEN COMING DOWN.

-0-

ARMSTRONG WENT BACK TO FIRST STEP JUST TO TEST HIS MOVEMENT.

-0-

ARMSTRONG SAID "I'M AT THE FOOT OF THE LADDER."

-0-

FLASH

ARMSTRONG SETS FOOT ON MOON

UPI/SPACE FLIGHT

FK957P7/20CD..


ARMSTRONG SAID "HERE'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN."

-0-

"SURFACE IS FINE AND POWDERY"

-0-

" "IT SEEMS TO BE IN FINE LAYERS LIKE POWDERED CHARCOAL."

-0-

"I CAN CLEARLY SEE THE FOOTPRINT OF MY SHOES IN THE FINE SANDY

PARTICLE."

-0-

ARMSTRONG HAS NOW LET LOOSE OF THE LADDER.

"THERE SEEMS TO BE NO DIFFICULTY MOVING AROUND AS WE EXPECTED."

-0-


B U L L E T I N

(SPACE CENTER)---AMERICAN ASTRONAUT NEIL ARMSTRONG HAS STEPPED

ONTO THE MOON---THE FIRST MAN FROM EARTH TO SET HIS FEET ON ANOTHER

HEAVENLY BODY. THE SCHEDULE CALLS FOR ASTRONAUT EDWIN ALDRIN TO

FOLLOW HIM ONTO THE LUNAR SURFACE SHORTLY.

FK959P7/20CDT


HE SET FOOT ON THE MOON AT 10:56 :31 P-M EDT.

OM

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"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote in message . ..
...Someone forwarded this to me this morning. Source not cited, but
interesting reading, as well as a look back on the end of the Golden
Days of Radio:

(Damn thing's in all caps, so it'll look like a Min rant :-( )

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

UPI Broadcast Wire, 1969
CONTROL: "YOU'RE LOOKING GOOD AT EIGHT MINUTES."
-0-
SPEED 129 FEET PER SECOND.
-0-
P GROUND TELLS THEM: "EAGLE YOURE LOOKING GREAT."
ALTITUDE RIVE-THOUSAND-200 FEET.
-0-
GROUND SAYS: "YOU'RE GO FOR LANDING."
-0-
EAGLE SAYS WE'RE GO.!!
TWO-THOUSAND FEET!!
-0-
14-HUNDRED!!...
-0-
--540.....
400--FEET..
300-FEET..
220--FEET..
COMING DOWN NICELY.....
120--...
100--...
75..--
30 FEET PICKING UP SOME DUST..
ENGINE STOPPED...

FLASH!!!
THEY'VE LANDED!!!
UPI SPACE FLIGHT
RU317P 7/29CDT




Man just landed on the moon! Of course they had to shout the entire story!
Besides, lower case hadn't been invented yet. ;-)


- Rusty Barton

Rusty B wrote:

Man just landed on the moon! Of course they had to shout the entire story!
Besides, lower case hadn't been invented yet. ;-)

Certainly not in Baudot, being printed by an decades old
TTY model 15 -- the only teletype that could make the
1960's era weather service model 28 ttys look modern.

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:36:02 GMT, David Higgins
wrote:

Rusty B wrote:

Man just landed on the moon! Of course they had to shout the entire story!
Besides, lower case hadn't been invented yet. ;-)

Certainly not in Baudot, being printed by an decades old
TTY model 15 -- the only teletype that could make the
1960's era weather service model 28 ttys look modern.

....Say what you will, but the Model 28's may have been antiquated when
they were new, but the damn things were built as if they were IBM 029
card punches. The one we had in the WX center had been in use at the
See-BS affiliate I worked at almost as long as I've been on the
planet, and the damn thing's still there and running!

OM

--

"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

OM wrote:
...Someone forwarded this to me this morning. Source not cited, but
interesting reading, as well as a look back on the end of the Golden
Days of Radio:

(Damn thing's in all caps, so it'll look like a Min rant :-( )

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

UPI Broadcast Wire, 1969
CONTROL: "YOU'RE LOOKING GOOD AT EIGHT MINUTES."
-0-
SPEED 129 FEET PER SECOND.
-0-
P GROUND TELLS THEM: "EAGLE YOURE LOOKING GREAT."
ALTITUDE RIVE-THOUSAND-200 FEET.
-0-
GROUND SAYS: "YOU'RE GO FOR LANDING."

snip

(WASHINGT0N)---WATCHING TELEVISION DURING THE MOON LANDING
PRESIDENT NIXON TERMED THE ACHIEVEMENT "THE GREATEST MOMENT OF
OUR TIME."
FK920P7/20CDT

snip rest

Nixon was right. Thanks for posting that. I've been lurking at best
here for what seems like weeks now, and with my ISP's short retention
time on usenet articles I could have missed this very easily. Glad I
saw it.

Imagine standing next to a news ticker in 1969 and watching those
minutes tick off. Today it's a shouting log of hackneyed news reporting
technology. Back then it was history in the making.

--
bp
Proud Member of the Human O-Ring Society Since 2003

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 06:30:32 GMT, Bruce Palmer
wrote:

Nixon was right. Thanks for posting that. I've been lurking at best
here for what seems like weeks now, and with my ISP's short retention
time on usenet articles I could have missed this very easily. Glad I
saw it.

....I'm surprised how few people have commented on this one, tho. I
fully expected lots of commentary, especially on the "meanwhile, in
the rest of the world..." section.

Imagine standing next to a news ticker in 1969 and watching those
minutes tick off. Today it's a shouting log of hackneyed news reporting
technology. Back then it was history in the making.

....I've worked in radio on the overnight shift, so I know how that
feels. Especially when the Burroughs "Grey Clunking Monstrosity"
starts churning away and the alert bell is ringing off the wall. One
of the oddest ones was when, during the middle of one of those airline
hijacking standoffs, because someone local was one of the hostages,
we'd been told to break in with any major updates even if no newsgeek
was on hand. About 3am, the bell goes ape****, paper starts flowing,
and I rush out of the booth over to the newsroom(*), which was
separated by a glass wall. I pull the copy, expecting to see "Special
forces raid jet, kill hijackers, x number of hostages killed in
process."

Instead, what they considered "Presidential Assasination-Level Alert"
material was, in fact, the report that the Singing Nun and her lesbian
lover had committed mutual suicide, followed by a long-assed bio.

....Needless to say, some junior bureau chief at AP got fired over that
one, as I later found out.

(*) The bell triggered a flashing light on the console that you could
not miss unless your eyes were closed, natch.

OM

--

"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

OM wrote:

...Say what you will, but the Model 28's may have been antiquated when
they were new [...]

Oh, they were state-of-the-art when they were first
introduced, and built like brick ****houses, happily
typing away for years on end... ...and apparently
still in use somewhere, as the weather service is
still issuing reports in ALL CAPS.

On 2004-08-27, OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote:

(JODRELL BANK, ENGLAND)---RUSSIA'S LUNA-15 SATELLITE IS PASSING
OVER THE APOLLO-11 LANDING SITE AT AN ALTITUDE OF A LITTLE LESS
THAN 10 MILES...BUT THERE IS STILL NO CLUE AS TO ITS MISSION.

This so sounds like the lead-in to a film, doesn't it?

ARMSTRONG SAID "HERE'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN."

I rather like that, given the fuss people make about these words, they
only quoted half the like...

--
-Andrew Gray

OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org writes:


Imagine standing next to a news ticker in 1969 and watching those
minutes tick off. Today it's a shouting log of hackneyed news reporting
technology. Back then it was history in the making.

...I've worked in radio on the overnight shift, so I know how that
feels. Especially when the Burroughs "Grey Clunking Monstrosity"
starts churning away and the alert bell is ringing off the wall. One
of the oddest ones was when, during the middle of one of those airline
hijacking standoffs, because someone local was one of the hostages,
we'd been told to break in with any major updates even if no newsgeek
was on hand. About 3am, the bell goes ape****, paper starts flowing,
and I rush out of the booth over to the newsroom(*), which was
separated by a glass wall. I pull the copy, expecting to see "Special
forces raid jet, kill hijackers, x number of hostages killed in
process."

Instead, what they considered "Presidential Assasination-Level Alert"
material was, in fact, the report that the Singing Nun and her lesbian
lover had committed mutual suicide, followed by a long-assed bio.

.....

Two Wirefeed stories:

February 20, 1971. At WCRB in Boston, they had noon & 6pm newscasts,
consisting of 'rip and read' whereby the announcer would go to the
back closet of the station, where the gawdawful noisy Model 15 was,
rip off the paper and select an item or two of choice. In theory,
you had to compose the news, not just read it, but...

So that day, the staff announcer was even more behind than usual,
went back with 5 minutes to go.... and found a MOUNTAIN of paper
on the floor. It was only then they she realized that we were, and
had been, at war [or so it said...] and should have been off the
air hours ago. Then reading farther, we were not at war, ooops,
invalid cancellation message, we were, no we were not.... I have
not idea what she said on the air....


Far Earlier; in a major metropolitan newspaper. There were multiple
wire machines: The A wire, the state one, local, sports, finance,
etc etc. One day, they all stopped, dead. Now it helps to know that
if you 'lose the loop' the machine does NOT stop, it 'runs open'
making CLATTER CLATTER CLATTER noise but printing nothing.

These had stopped. AP was no sending any news. Word spread across
the office, and floors of the building, but nothing. It may have
seemed like hours, but I doubt it was more than a few minutes...

Then every machine started up, all in sync..... with a stream
of bells. Now 2-3 bells was something important, 5 urgent,
but this was more. Lots more. Then silence again...

Finally all the machines starting printing the same text;
Germany had surrendered.



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& no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 01:00:15 +0000 (UTC), David Lesher
wrote:

Then every machine started up, all in sync..... with a stream
of bells. Now 2-3 bells was something important, 5 urgent,
but this was more. Lots more. Then silence again...

Finally all the machines starting printing the same text;
Germany had surrendered.

....There's differing reports on this, but the main difference is the
number of bells. The wire feed operator couldn't say how many he used,
but counts are in excess of 20 or more.

OM

--

"No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m
his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr