Newsgroups: sci.space
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Questions about Apollo 11
Message-ID: <1989Jul20.155758.15392@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1188@bcd-dyn.UUCP> <1989Jul15.214136.8236@utzoo.uucp> <28852@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 15:57:58 GMT

In article <28852@ames.arc.nasa.gov> mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick) writes:
><The early Saturn Vs had little camera pods that separated, reentered,
><and were recovered...
>
>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.

I'm not sure about that; remember that there were only two unmanned
Saturn V launches.  I wouldn't be surprised if one or two of the early
manned ones had camera pods aboard, especially given that the second
unmanned flight hit problems.  (It took considerable boldness and a
lot of confidence in the engineers to fly Apollo 8 on the third one.)
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