Word: pasadena
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EDWIN ROBERTS Oneonta Congregational Church South Pasadena, Calif...
...reviving. Its receiver, turned on ever since it landed on the moon almost four weeks before, seemed incapable of picking up radioed signals and translating them into the commands that would awaken the space traveler's other instruments. Day after day, the scientists at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena tried to make contact; day after day, their only response was silence...
...surrealism and the reappearance of nonabstract art are drawing attention back to him. Lawrence Alloway, former curator of New York's Guggenheim Museum, originally picked him as one of four artists to represent the U.S. at this year's Venice Biennale. California's forward-looking Pasadena Art Museum plans a survey of his work for this coming autumn...
...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 a filter wheel turning until a red filter was in front of the lens. Then they ordered the camera to photograph the scene. The procedure was repeated twice more, once with a green and finally with a blue filter...
...Pasadena, Surveyor's TV trans missions were converted into three black-and-white transparencies that had subtle differences in shading caused by Surveyor's filters. Each was mounted in a separate projector - one equipped with a red, another with a green, and the third with a blue filter-and focused on a single screen. The result: a reconstituted color picture that is "a fair approximation of the actual scene...