Apollo 8 Television

Colin Mackellar has updated the Honey Suckle Creek web site to have
some videos of the Apollo 8 mission with Earth view.
http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/index1.html

See the snips below.
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And what I first saw when we had the Lunar Prospector web site up.
http://www.archive.org/details/Apollo_8_-_Go_For_TLI


Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

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Apollo 8 Television
http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/msfn_missions/Apollo_8_mission/

Apollo 8 had onboard an RCA black and white slow-scan TV camera. Like
the Westinghouse Lunar Surface TV Camera used on Apollo 11, this
produced a non-interlaced 320 line 10 frames per second picture which
was scan-converted to 525 line 29.97fps (i.e. NTSC compatible) at the
three prime MSFN stations.

During the mission, six broadcasts originated from Apollo 8. Five of
these were relayed to Houston from Goldstone – and one from Madrid.
(Until just before Apollo 11, there were no video circuits from
Honeysuckle Creek to the outside world. While Apollo 8 TV was seen on
station, it could not be released in real time.)

These video clips from Apollo 8 were on a tape loaned by Goddard
Apollo TV Engineer Dick Nafzger to the Applied Physics Lab at Johns
Hopkins University. The 2 inch quadriplex tape contains daily mission
highlights. These pictures were seen live worldwide during the
mission. This recording is generally better than other existing
recordings I have seen. The picture instability at the start of each
clip is an artifact of the tape playback. (You could save these files
to your hard disk for repeat viewing.)

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Colin Mackellar sends. - LRK -
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Hi Larry,

Thanks for the updates....

For what it's worth, I've uploaded the Apollo 8 video that we found
(in the search for Apollo 11 video) to

http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/msfn_missions/Apollo_8_mission

and just click on

Apollo 8 onboard video

The quality is generally better than what was seen live in 1968.

All the files are MPEG4 format - and I've also added a Flash version
of the highlights from Transmission 4 (the reading from Genesis in
lunar orbit).

Have a great Christmas.

best wishes

Colin

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NASA Television Commemorates Apollo 8 Christmas Eve Broadcast
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/dec/HQ_M08-268_NASATV_Apollo8.html

Dec. 22, 2008

Al Feinberg
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1058
al.feinberg@nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-268

NASA TELEVISION COMMEMORATES APOLLO 8 CHRISTMAS EVE BROADCAST

WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will honor the 40th anniversary of the
historic Christmas Eve broadcast by the Apollo 8 crew with special
programming Dec. 24 and 25 on the NASA TV Public Channel (101).

Forty years ago, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders became the
first humans to visit another heavenly body as they successfully
orbited the moon in their Apollo 8 spacecraft. On Dec. 24, 1968, the
three astronauts devoted one of their mission's six live television
transmissions to reading from the biblical book of Genesis during
what has since come to be known as the Christmas Eve Broadcast.

To commemorate the anniversary, NASA TV will air the following special
programs:

"The Annual John H. Glenn Lecture -- An Evening with the Apollo 8
Astronauts," a panel discussion with Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and
Bill Anders recorded Nov. 13, 2008, at the Smithsonian's National Air
and Space Museum. Former U.S. senator and NASA astronaut John Glenn
provided their introduction.

"The Apollo 8 Crew Remembers Historic Mission, Live from the Newseum,"
a panel discussion with the Apollo 8 astronauts moderated by Nick
Clooney and recorded Nov. 13, 2008, at the Newseum in Washington.

"De-Brief Apollo 8," an historical documentary of Apollo 8, narrated
by Burgess Meredith (1970).

"Apollo 8 Christmas Video," a 10-minute documentary featuring Apollo 8
astronauts describing their historic mission. (Excerpts from the John
H. Glenn Lecture recorded Nov. 13, 2008.)

"Apollo 8 -- December 21, 1968," a NASA Manned Space Flight Film
Report on the Apollo 8 mission (1970).

The NASA Television Video File also will include footage documenting
the Apollo 8 mission's Christmas Eve broadcast. For program times and
listings, consult the NASA Television schedule online at:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

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http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/imagery/apollo/AS08/a08av.htm
THE APOLLO PROGRAM
APOLLO 8
Audion & Video

Smithsonian
National Air and Space Museum

Apollo 8
Mission Summary
Apollo 8 Facts
Apollo 8 Crew
Spacecraft
Images
Audio/Video

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Google YouTube Apollo 8 Videos

TinyURL - http://tinyurl.com/9mcbwa

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Apollo 8 Go For TLI
Internet Archive: 21 min 42 sec - Better quality than what we had
on the Lunar Prospector web site. - LRK -
Moving Image Archive > Open Source Movies > Apollo 8: Go For TLI

http://www.archive.org/details/Apollo_8_-_Go_For_TLI

This voyage, manned by astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, and
William A. Anders, was man's first to another celestial body, and
included an orbit around the Moon on Christmas Day, 1968. Also
featured on this episode are air-to-ground tapes of the astronauts'
descriptions of the mission, as well as onboard photography of the
Earth, Moon and intravehicular activity.


This movie is part of the collection: Open Source Movies

Audio/Visual: sound, color / b&w
Language: English
Keywords: NASA; apollo; apollo 8; apollo program; moon; space race

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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