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Old 8th Mar 2019, 1:32 am   #47
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Default Re: The BBC Apollo coverage tapes

I saw something on TV during the last week or so, in which some old geezer was interviewed sitting in the control room at Jodrell Bank. They had no official role in the Apollo 11 landing but followed the mission and this chap had what appeared very much to be an A4 (or foolscap) hand-drawn graph (maybe it was a pen recording) showing the height of the LM as a function of time during the last couple of minutes of the flight. Armstrong comes barrelling in, decides he doesn't like what he sees so goes back up again a bit, then hovers for a while, while moving down range, and finally landing.

Somewhere on the internet, there's an informal report of the Jodrell Bank activities that night, as recalled by that chap or one of his colleagues; probably even more fun than watching James Burke!
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