THE FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL!!!🇺🇸
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The absolutely most amazing thing I’ve ever seen and I watched the “Moon landing “ live on our brand new color TV when I was 16 years!!
Showing your age there, I too watched it live, and was admonished for asking who the photographer was, seeing as they were filming Armstrong's feet, and therefore being the 'first' out of the craft.
The TV camera was on one of the four lunar lander legs. It was called MESA (modular equipment storage assembly). There were demonstrations of its location and deployment prior to the mission, and drawings in various outreach articles/items. I always feel sad seeing how people with the entire internet at their fingertips can claim that technology that's dogbark simple by today's standards somehow couldn't exist 60 years ago, when technical innovation was being unleashed on an unprecedented scale worldwide.
But this is an era where sub midwits comprise the bulk of those using the fingertip internet. It's easier to say NUH UH than understand all the technical and engineering steps and stages in all the gajillions of innovations that led to every part of these amazing missions. Each step and stage of which, and all their patents, are also lookupable on that fingertip internet.
https://curious-droid.com/1487/tv-from-the-moon-apollos-live-tv-cameras/
I was a sceptic at a young age - always asking awkward questions.