The
Westinghouse
Lunar Surface TV Camera
The Apollo 11 EVA TV Camera.
Enjoy these short film clips – more to come in this section.
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Stan Lebar, Westinghouse Program Manager for Apollo Television Cameras, introduces the Apollo 11 Lunar Surface TV Camera – and also the Westinghouse Color Camera that was used on Apollo 10 and in the CM on Apollo 11. Here’s a 10MB MPEG4 video file. (Duration: 1' 38".) With thanks to Stan Lebar for the footage. |
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Stan Lebar, Westinghouse Program Manager for Apollo Television Cameras, with the Apollo 11 Lunar Surface TV Camera. (The camera still looks fantastic when seen in person today – it looked even more futuristic in 1969!) Click the image to open the 8MB MPEG4 video file in a new window. (Duration: 1' 03".) No Sound. Windows: Right click / Macintosh: Control click to download the file. With thanks to Stan Lebar for the footage. |
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On behalf of his Westinghouse team, Stan Lebar accepts the 1970 Emmy Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Coverage of a Special Event” (i.e. the Apollo 11 EVA) and the development of Color Television in Space. Left to right: David Frost, Gloria
De Haven, Stan Lebar, Jill St. John. |
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Here’s Stan’s Emmy on display at the National Electronics Museum, Linthicum, Maryland, April 2011. Photo: Colin Mackellar. |
See also these photos from the 2006 Honeysuckle / Apollo luncheon in Canberra, when Stan Lebar brought one of the Lunar Surface TV Cameras to Australia. See also his words of thanks to the Australian Trackers to helped receive the Apollo 11 television signal. |
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