going to the moon?

Question

ok in this video at around 40-50 seconds i think there was a scene where the craft was taking off so who was tracking the liftoff craft with the camera? surely they didnt leave someone behind
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3fOSTfGXVN4

i myself find it very difficult to believe in the lunar hoax, that wasnt the point of the question i just never thought they had remote control cameras back then so it never came to my mind. thank you for your answers though.

Answer 1

its a camera with a remote control.... they left the camera there

it was on a timer to take the video at the same time the pod lifted off

Answer 2

OK, why do so many people find it hard to grasp the idea that a camera works without having to have someone standing behind it? The camera on the last three missions, Apollo 15, 16 and 17, was mounted on the lunar roving vehicle and remotely controlled from Earth. It took all three of those missions for the guy in Houston, a chap called Ed Fendell, to get the camera movements timed right to track the LM as it lifted off.

Answer 3

Nobody stayed behind to catch that shot. The camera used for that lift off shot was on the lunar rover which was set up specifically to record it. It was remotely controlled from mission control in Houston. There was a few seconds of time delay between the time it took to move the control to follow the lunar module as it rose, and when the camera moved on the moon, so the trick was to time it just right. The time delay had to taken into consideration but it all worked fine

Answer 4

Do you know what really bugs me about the people who listen to the moon landings hoax pseudo-science, is that they have so little science themselves that they can be fooled by anyone spouting what sounds like science. They also don’t take the time to go check the facts, and then get on this forum and spout this stuff as if they are experts.

The lunar lander alone cost over a billion dollars to develop, over the course of 8 long years (61-69). Given that, and the massive cost of the whole exercise, do you not think they could have got simple things like having a camera film the take-off and relay it back to Earth.

Jeez, I shake my head in shame for all the people who insult all the thousands of people who put their lives on hold to achieve the greatest triumph of mankind so far.

I wonder what all these doubting drongos have achieved, other than parrot all this conspiracy stuff.

Answer 5

They left a remote control camera on the surface that was aimed at the vehicle, for the purposes of filming the liftoff (and sending the images back to Earth).
Believe it or not, we did have remote control devices even back in 1969 (it wasn't the Dark Ages).

Answer 6

No the tripod had controls that moved from Earth, there is only a ONE second delay time from EARTH to MOON.

YOU can have this yourself with a $2,000 telescope that has a sensor you can connect to your computer and your mouse can move the telescope.

YOu can put the telescope outside in the dark and cold and sit at your desk and move the telescope anywhere with the mouse.

Meade, Cellestron and others make such scopes and they cost over $1,600+

Answer 7

The camera was set up before liftoff, and limited control was maintained be mission control.

Answer 8

Interesting. I guess they left a camera there and operated it with a remote control. Now that's going to bother me all night.

Answer 9

You have auto movement trackers on laptop cameras, now. Why is it so hard to figure that NASA had them in the 70s?

Answer 10

Perhaps you've herad of somethingcalled radio control? Even back then kids used it to control toys.