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From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Questions about Apollo 11
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Date: 19 Jul 89 20:46:12 GMT
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In article <1989Jul15.214136.8236@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
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<The early Saturn Vs had little camera pods that separated, reentered,
<and were recovered.  The purpose being, obviously, to monitor how well
<things like staging worked.  (Other than staging, the one thing I know
<that was photographed by the pods (via fiber-optic bundles) was fuel
<movement inside the tanks; those films are pretty boring, though.)
<

On the Apollo 6 mission, one of the cameras was lost. It was finally
found about 4 years later, having washed up onto the beach of some
south sea island. The film was still good.

Most of the footage of staging is from the unmanned missions, I don't
think that any of the manned boosters had the cameras on board.


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