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Originally Posted by softearth
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Originally Posted by phunk
How could it be shared in real time back then? There was no internet, and it was film, not digital, it had to be processed.
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Actually, the film was processed and scanned to digital form on the orbitor and then sent back to earth via radio transmitions. It's this "RAW" digital information that should have and should be shared with the public and not the end picture(s). |
Are you saying that this was done with the Apollo pictures? If so, I believe that you are wrong. The only electronic pictures taken by the Apollo missions were television. Everything else was film. Hundreds or thousands of 70mm Hasselblad frames, and loads of 16mm movies. The film was developed and printed on Earth. The astronauts had enough to do besides fooling with developing chemicals in free-fall.
I will, of course, accept correction from those who know more about it than me.
Fred