[QUOTE=FluD;48008971]you forget the first satellite, not only that everyone can hear it and nobody can turn it off during the Cold War, it was very impressive and today impressive how they have changed the world[/QUOTE]
Sputnik's battery died 3 weeks after launch. It's not like it was an ever present reminder of Soviet supremacy...
Maybe Russia will say that the U.S. Actually lost the American Civil War next.
Maybe I can finally have a reason to secede.
All this diminishing and dick waving towards Russia, yet you can't stop using their rockets.
Actual recordigs could never be retrieved. Why?
Because of the limitations of that time, television signal had to be encoded by two TV stations at the time. Basically, one line of image was decoded at USA, for example, while another - at Australia.
I don't remember exact details, but this is one of reasons.
I also heard that these tapes were reused, as raw source material seemed renudant, and that some of these tapes were thrown in the trash by cleaner. Just theories, no proof.
The tapes were definitely reused. Some may have been lost completely. The reason being that the live TV broadcast was nothing more than a technology demo. The resolution and framerate is adequate only as a proof of concept, no reason to archive it really. The 16mm cameras were there to provide full resolution, full motion videos from the flights, and all of the 16mm archives were preserved or scanned to digital.
I'm fact you can buy a 1tb hard drive pre-loaded with tons of raw digital scans of the 16mm film rolls from spacecraftfilms.com. The quality is a world of difference away from the live television transmissions.
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