The first time I became aware of Americans I was four years old. (space-related anecdote)
One small step for man ... etc.
I was doing a puzzle at the dining-table and my grandparents were watching the black-n-white telly, for fuzzy pictures - of a foot coming down the little ladder. (taken by what camera,? was my question at the time) . They shushed me, and were sitting on the edges of their seats, all agog. I felt a little lonely over there at the table.
My grandies tried to say, afterwards, it was a 'film camera' mounted on a little remote-contolled wheelie thingie.
"But then they would have to first put it on the ground, and that would mean IT'S NOT REAL". I felt betrayed by a make-believe-for-the-camera.
I was a difficult child, prolly on the aspie spectrum. Afterwards I would wrap myself in towels or tablecloths, so that they could not take pictures of me 'playing with a tea-set' that they had put on the lawn, for me 'learn to do the dishes', because I felt that it was ALL make-believe, as soon as the camera came out. And anyway, the whole thing was plastic, and the sun looked neat through the cloth. They got all concerned: "Is he sleeping?"
Showing my jolly age and some weird ancestors, and revealing personal details on the internetz. Gee.
In the Old days,the press would cover Americans stuck in space.
Now,not so much.
The first time I became aware of Americans I was four years old. (space-related anecdote)
One small step for man ... etc.
I was doing a puzzle at the dining-table and my grandparents were watching the black-n-white telly, for fuzzy pictures - of a foot coming down the little ladder. (taken by what camera,? was my question at the time) . They shushed me, and were sitting on the edges of their seats, all agog. I felt a little lonely over there at the table.
My grandies tried to say, afterwards, it was a 'film camera' mounted on a little remote-contolled wheelie thingie.
"But then they would have to first put it on the ground, and that would mean IT'S NOT REAL". I felt betrayed by a make-believe-for-the-camera.
I was a difficult child, prolly on the aspie spectrum. Afterwards I would wrap myself in towels or tablecloths, so that they could not take pictures of me 'playing with a tea-set' that they had put on the lawn, for me 'learn to do the dishes', because I felt that it was ALL make-believe, as soon as the camera came out. And anyway, the whole thing was plastic, and the sun looked neat through the cloth. They got all concerned: "Is he sleeping?"
Showing my jolly age and some weird ancestors, and revealing personal details on the internetz. Gee.
They had the camera mounted on the landing gear I bet.
You don't go all that way and not film it.
Right. fly through space with an outboard camera. In the sixties, when even a tiny piece of dust would send photogaphers into a tizzy.
Mind you it was a 'fillum camera' which was even harder to weather/dust proof.
Makes sense.
The landing module was not on the outside during the trip. iirc. If not it's simple technology to have a cover you can remove remotely.