Apollo 17 Liftoff from Moon - December 14, 1972

Lift-off of Apollo 17 Lunar Module ascent stage is captured by a television camera mounted on the lunar rover which the crew parked about 145 meters east of the spacecraft. The ascent stage ignites and climbs, spacecraft foil and dust fly in all directions. Ed Fendell in Houston had to anticipate the timing of ignition, lift-off, and the rate of climb, to control the camera tilt to follow the ascent. "We're on our way Houston" is the voice of Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan. The clip ends as LM "Challenger" reaches an altitude of 1,500 feet. After docking with the Command Module, the ascent stage was jettisoned and returned to the lunar surface. Its impact was recorded by four geophones deployed by Apollo 17 astronauts, and by each ALSEP at the Apollo 12, 14, 15 and 16 landing sites.
Source: http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/video17.html#launch
Credit: Kipp Teague, Lunar Surface Journal

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[PandaComment]

Save the pandas!

[marcotor949]

It is well known that Bigfoot gave the order from the Grassy Knoll to fake the moon landings. It had to be done, to protect the secret Air Force moon base where the aliens first made contact and later operated from. The Illuminati, Masons, and the Catholic church, who were working in concert with the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy and the "media" needed to hide from the public that all of the gold Prescott Bush and Joseph Kennedy had stolen from Fort Knox was hidden at the secret moon base.

[Laurelindo]

@spikeyman000 And yes I know their name is NASA, I mixed up the names, big deal.

[Laurelindo]

@spikeyman000 It was filmed by a radio-controlled camera that they brought to the moon, Apollo would obviously find some way to record something as important as the lift-offs from the moon.

They aren't stupid, they prepare all these things in advance with the help of their great numbers of rocket scientists and engineers, you know.

[spikeyman000]

Who the hell filmed that, what a load of crap, we're leaving in a tin foil hut, filming with our 1972 wireless webcam

[OfficialPolkaDot]

Ed Fendell in Houston had to anticipate the timing of ignition, lift-off, and the rate of climb, to control the camera tilt to follow the ascent.

i think thats really cool!

having to do it before and idk it seems complicated but it all worked out! xD

[Trek001]

@makethemyth it was transmitting - the controllers sent the movement signals in advance because they took into account the time delay

[TheRobloxian23]

@FayeKane

Hmm you say that but a real doucebag. Would they really fake the moon landing? Would NASA really do that? If they did they would be shut down today for hoax. Also, Do you think the capsule reentry was a hoax?

[Lavenderrose73]

Oh, they were back in time for Christmas! : )

[aashen]

@makethemyth Yes, because everything you've ever seen on television is brought to your home in tape form. If only there was some way of oh, I don't know, broadcasting a television signal to a receiver of some sort....