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Originally Posted by Sandy G
Awrite, Troy ! IIRC, they used a scanning disc camera for some reason the 1st couple of times they went to the Moon in '69. Either a scanning disc camera was lighter, or they didn't think a std TV camera would work up there for some reason... Hard to believe that was gettin' on to 50 yrs ago now...
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oops - not quite - electronic one-tube camera with mechanical field-sequential color wheel on the moon.