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Old 8th Mar 2019, 11:51 pm   #51
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Default Re: The BBC Apollo coverage tapes

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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.
http://www.jodrellbank.net/20-july-1...-surface-moon/
Ah, on the bit I saw, it just showed one line coming down, not the multiple lines where the pen recorder had to be re-set.

In this 50th Anniversary year, it certainly seems to be "hats off" to Elon Musk's team . Seems like he has attracted a lot of very good people to go work at SpaceX, firstly with the launch vehicle which returns to the launch pad and now the Dragon capsule.

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