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It seems as if the cameraman is already on the moon filming from far off the the first walk off of the ship and onto the moon.

2006-12-29 13:29:24 · 4 answers · asked by mrbobbobber 1 in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

Thanks Tim and Questor for answering my question with a forgiving thoroughness...
To the campbelp, yes sorry please forgive me i've only seen a couple minute clip, and i'm sorry my ignorant yet sincere question offended you so much... It's people like you who make this site worse, not better. This is about people who are seeking knowledge, asking questions to expand their mind and getting quality answers. My question is nothing more than a question, i don't imply anything in my question except my lack of knowledge on the matter. I say "it seems", obviously not stating anything i say as a fact.

2006-12-29 14:00:15 · update #1

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When Neil Armstrong backed out of the hatch of the Lunar Module "Eagle", he paused at the top of the ladder and pulled a line. This released a section of part of the LM to his left which swung down from the vertical position through about 120 degrees. This had a black-and-white TV camera fixed to it which was set to point towards the ladder, and it was this TV camera that gave us the live pictures of Armstrong coming down the ladder and stepping onto the surface of the Moon.
After Edwin Aldrin had joined him on the surface, they set up another TV camera on a support, which they placed some distance away, pointing back towards the LM.
Additionally, a 16mm movie camera was fixed inside the LM, pointing out of one of the windows, taking 1 frame per second.
Finally, the astronauts had a 70mm Hasselblad camera to take photos whilst on the surface. Armstrong used this for almost all the pictures that were taken, and the famous sequence of colour stills of an astronaut coming down the ladder are pictures that he took of Aldrin.

2006-12-29 13:45:39 · answer #1 · answered by Questor 4 · 1 0

From the camera attached to the side of the LM. After Armstrong was on the surface, Aldrin came down. After they were both on the surface, they moved the camera to a tripod some distance away. I watched the whole thing live on TV in 1969. It was several hours long and I watched the whole thing from start to finish. What have you seen, a couple minute clip?

2006-12-29 21:44:42 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1 1

There was no cameraman.

For Armstrong's first step, "The pictures were taken by the Apollo lunar surface camera, mounted on one of the LM [lunar module] legs."

2006-12-29 21:44:05 · answer #3 · answered by Tim P. 5 · 2 0

just for public viewing of coarse they landed on the moon, if they didn't well i don't thin hollywood special effects where that good, when you look at films like star wars or star trek, it is defos's staged though and still no 100 percent why they would want to land on a rock lol

2006-12-29 21:38:02 · answer #4 · answered by tboyd322001 3 · 0 1

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