New Frontier
The Apollo era comes to an end with its last lunar landings. Facing increased political and public pressure, NASA is under the gun to prove moon landings are still worth the cost and the risk.
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At about halfway thru the episode, they touch briefly on the famous first video from Apollo 15's the lunar rover of the LEM (Lunar Excursion Module, since shortened to LM or Lunar Module) blasting off from the Moon. There is no mention of how tricky it was to get that shot. Because of the radio time delay between the Earth and Moon, they could not do this live and it had never been done before. They had to program the camera, the beginning of its tilt, and its speed and angle of tilt to capture the LEM leaving, never having seen it before and without knowing for sure that it would work.
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The Apollo era comes to an end with its last lunar landings. Facing increased political and public pressure, NASA is under the gun to prove moon landings are still worth the cost and the risk.