Apollo 11 Part 12 NASA Footage of Countdown

From The Morning of Wendsday July 16th 1969,
NASA Footage of The Apollo 11 Countdown

Apollo 11 Crew:

Commander: Neil Armstrong

Command Module Pilot: Michael Collins

Lunar Module Pilot: Buzz Aldrin

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• 1969
• Apollo
• 11
• Countdown
• Launch
• NASA
• Footage

[dirac33]

Seated behind and to the right of President Johnson was James Webb, NASA director, for whom the next space telescope, successor to Hubble, is named.

[altfactor]

This was the pool footage that the networks used, along with shots from their own cameras and repoting from their own commentators.

The three networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) all began their live launch-day coverage at 6 A.M. EDT, some 3 1/2 hours before liftoff. Their broadcasts ran until early afternoon, by which time, the third stage had re-fired to send the astronauts to the Moon, and the lunar module had been extracted from the adaptor between the command/service mobule and the third stage.

[byrd56]

What if cable/satellite/Internet TV in general, and NASA TV in particular, were around on July 16, 1969? This is what it would have been like...pool feed video and no commentary other than Jack King, Paul Haney and the like.