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Apollo 11 Telemetry Data Recordings: A Final Report

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When astronauts landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, the Eagle lander carried a small, unconventional television camera affixed to the inside of the door. It had one mission. Once astronauts opened the door and activated the camera, it would begin shooting live images of the historic event, transmitting the raw footage by way of an antenna to Earth below. There, engineers at three tracking stations would tape the original signals onto one-inch telemetry tapes fpr backup and then also convert the raw feed into a conventional format compatible with American broadcast standards.

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2010-01-01. Apollo 11 Telemetry Data Recordings: A Final Report. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20110011709

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