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From: palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu (David Palmer)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Moonwalk
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Date: 18 Jul 89 17:06:44 GMT
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In article <1305@hiatus.dec.com> fisher@moon.dec.com writes:
>
>Douglas Krouse asks, "how did the camera that was left behind on the Moon
>track the LM taking off, and how did they get the film back"
>
>They did not and it did not.  The picture you saw was not Apollo XI.  It was
>XVI or XVII.  There was not picture from the outside of XI taking off.  In the
>...
>BTW, I'm quite angry at CBS for trying to pull this one over on us.  Give us
>back Uncle Walter!

CBS has admitted that they got tape from Apollo XVII confused with XI tape
when they were putting together the program, and apologized.

		David Palmer
		palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu
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