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To achieve lunar color photography, Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists in Pasadena first commanded the mirror mounted above Surveyor's fixed, black-and-white television camera to swivel and tilt until it reflected the proper piece of lunar terrain into the cam era lens. By radioed signal, they start ed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Moon Is Brown | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

Incandescent Re-Entry. Like almost everything else on Gemini 9's glitch-filled flight, space photography fell short of expectations. Just as he was about to close the hatch, Astronaut Cernan lost the film magazine and a lens from the movie camera that had recorded his space walk. As...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Down the Pickle Barrel | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

Third, Pasolini has used the "zoom" lens both ostentatiously and successfully--an unprecedented combination. Somehow a "zoom" shot always seems a portent of Revelation--which is what Pasolini uses it to depict.

Author: By Jeremy W. Heist, | Title: The Gospel According to St. Matthew | 4/16/1966 | See Source »

From repairing damaged retinas in the human eye to burning precision holes in industrial diamonds, the list of uses for laser light has grown steadily since the fierce, pure beams were first projected less than ten years ago. A recent application may yet prove to be one of the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Optics: Pure Light for Practical Pictures | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

A Dusty Theory. Taken by a camera with a wide-angle lens from about 10 ft. above a porous, pumicelike surface, the pictures showed a barren, forbidding crust, littered with jagged rocks and tiny pebbles that the Russians later revealed were as small as 1 or 2 millimeters wide. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Lunar Landscape | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

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