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Old 27th Feb 2019, 12:25 am   #36
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Default Re: The BBC Apollo coverage tapes

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Originally Posted by ms660 View Post
I remember this from 59 years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathyscaphe_Trieste

Lawrence.
That descent was referred to in the recent documentary, including reference to the window which cracked, but they seemed to suggest that the Trieste had not gone to the very deepest point of the trench. That exact point was probably not known at the time. The recent mission succeeded in bringing biological and rock samples back the surface. The craft was entirely battery powered and controlled via a fibre optic line.

Re music for Apollo 11 TV coverage, didn't one channel also use "Fanfare for the Common Man" some of the time, long before Emerson, Lake and Palmer got to it.

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