Word: tripods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bean will emerge about 35 minutes later to join his skipper in preliminary chores. Together they will set up a large, umbrella-shaped S-band antenna (for better TV transmissions), place the TV camera on a tripod about 20 ft. from the LM, unfurl a solar wind experiment to trap high-speed particles from the sun on aluminum foil, and -in the only ceremony planned for the mission-plant a U.S. flag...
Armstrong moved the still-operating camera to its panorama position on a tripod aimed at the lunar module. During the next two hours, the astronauts went busily about their appointed tasks, moving in and out of the camera's view. They planted a 3-ft. by 5-ft. American flag, stiffened with thin wire so that it would appear to be flying in the vacuum of the moon. Effortlessly they set up three scientific devices: 1) a solar wind experiment, consisting of a 4-ft.-long aluminum-foil strip designed to capture particles streaming in from...
...Some of the parts are no larger than the pupil of an eye; others are as thin as a photo negative. Westinghouse designed the camera so that the astronauts, busy with important scientific experiments, would have a minimum of fussing to do once it was set up on a tripod on the lunar surface. Aside from switching from slow to fast scanning, no adjustments are necessary other than choosing between four fixed-focus lenses-a wide angle, a telephoto, a lens for lunar daylight and a lens for lunar nighttime...
Tichauer would eliminate one leg, and spread the other two to make that most stable of all bases, the tripod...
...hour later, Nora was standing near the edge of the same bluff Tim had taken me to on the ski-doo. Her back was facing the mist-engulfed quarry. About ten yards in front of her was Tim, looking through his camera, which was on a tripod balanced on the show. Between Tim and Nora was Eric, who had leather encased tape recorder strapped over his shoulder, a headset over his ears, and a long mike in his hand. Behind Tim and leaning on the ski-doo were Phoebe and myself. We were shooting the first take...