
Flag of the United States on American astronaut Neil Armstrong’s space suit (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story
This latest NASA storybook came out this week, and has this little gem in it:
“Setting their special Westinghouse Lunar Color Television Camera on its tripod (another technological improvement made since the primitive black-and-white camera used on Apollo 11 only months ago), Beano accidentally pointed it directly into the sun, burning out the lens. The TV networks were beside themselves – they had counted on covering the entire moonwalk – until someone had the bright idea of building a mock-up of the Moon in the studio. Actor stand-ins walked around in moon suits, synched to the live transmission of the real astronauts’ voices.”
Page 242 of The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel