Re: Apollo 12 at 35...

From: Robert Casey (wa2ise_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 22:30:15 GMT

OM wrote:

> ...I'm ashamed to say that we Space Historians totally missed this
> one, it seems.

I suspect that that minor technological glitch of the TV
camera getting burned out by the Sun, while not a big
deal for the safety of the crew and science work, was
a bad thing for maintaining public interest in the
Moon missions. People like to see live TV of news
events in progress, and if no video, people lose interest.

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