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for the first time

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this is the television camera that will

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and we're getting a picture on the tv

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this is really a reach out into nowhere

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i mean i mean it was just beyond

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anything that anyone ever considered

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this whole mission was now about

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television

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uh there's a great deal of contrast in

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it and

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currently it's upside down on our

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monitor but we can make out a fair

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when we finally launched apollo 7

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wally shraw refused to turn on the

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camera that was a time where the

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astronauts and many others were against

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television as a

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non-required

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non-scientific device that took up

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weight and power and had other things

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removed because of it

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when he wouldn't turn on we were pretty

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heartbroken and within a couple hours we

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heard that a command went up it was a

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military command that you'll turn it on

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it's this from that uh

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lovely apollo

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they did turn around it was very

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successful the public got highly

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involved in excitement about this a

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little closer wally

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keep those

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cards

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really such a device as the lunar tv

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camera this one really exist

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well judge for yourself on my right is a

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monitor in which the signal from the

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actual lunar camera is being received

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no redundancy no second camera

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so there's going to be one camera on the

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moon with one little wire going back

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and that was it

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okay would you verify the position

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the opening i ought to have on the

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camera

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secret

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when we put that tube in and the

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requirement was we could never take a

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picture of the two to show the camera

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they allowed us to talk about it but our

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data was classified and everything else

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and

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just before apollo 11 i received this

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notice from the air force that they

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declassified

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okay neil we can see you coming down the

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ladder now honeysuckle had a converter

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they would convert signal signal sydney

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parks didn't have a converter they would

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send what's called the sliscan tv down

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to sydney where we had our guys with the

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converter and then they would select the

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best source and send it out to nlsat to

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come to california to come to houston

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and it only took one guy with one patch

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most people don't know that little

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engineering model

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and that's all it was

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ended up flying as the first camera on

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the moon

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and i'm still not sure i got paid for it

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it's a little shadowy but

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he said he expected that in the shadow

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of the lunar module the world just

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marveled at this right along with us and

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we more or less made the whole world our

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partners in this thing by inviting

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people to be there to share that with

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we were watching it they'll turn to me

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and he says pam this has made it all

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worthwhile

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and i became like everybody else totally

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immersed in the fact there was a man

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walking on the moon

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one

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yeah we had some feeling that this was a

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worldwide event i mean you'd have to be

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an idiot not to know that but how big it

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really had turned out to be

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i learned that afterwards and thought oh

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my gosh thank goodness the same work and

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then we celebrated all night

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we