Not one but two Aussie dishes were used to get the TV signals back from the Apollo 11 moonwalk
- Written by John Sarkissian, Operations Scientist, CSIRO
US astronaut Neil Armstrong on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission.NASAThe role Australia played in relaying the first television images of astronaut Neil Armstrong’s historic walk on the Moon 50 years ago this July features in the popular movie The Dish.
But that only tells part of the story (with some fictionalisation as well).
What really...
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