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Around The Moon: Orbiter Camera Ready To Film Landing Sites

Around The Moon: Orbiter Camera Ready To Film Landing Sites
Clip: 426172_1_1
Year Shot: 1966 (Actual Year)
Audio: No
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1751
Original Film: 039-066-01
HD: N/A
Location: Cape Kennedy, Florida - Space
Timecode: 00:07:47 - 00:09:33

NO AUDIO A preview of actualities and simulations of the adventures around the Moon of the Lunar Orbiter Spacecraft. The facts of how it achieved its perfect orbit and what it did when it began its circling. The whole story of the Moon orbit mechanics and how the pictures taken are transmitted back to earth. TLS A rocket ship that will take a satellite out into space lifting off of the ground. Animation of a satellite put into orbit to take photographs of the earth and moon. Animation of the satellite orbiting the moon taking pictures and recording other important data. Animation of how the camera will work that was placed inside the orbiting satellite. Animation on how the satellite will orbit the earth radioing images back to the earth. MS Large satellite dish. CU Technician loading the film into a large piece of machinery (processing the film?). CU Researcher looking into a microscope to examine a slide. CU of the slide through the viewfinder (surface of the moon?). MS Technician looking through the eye piece and another film technician holding unspooled film for the other technician to examine.