Miraz
Miraz

NZ and the Moon Landing 🇳🇿🚀:

NZ had to wait a bit longer … to see the moon landing in 1969.

We didn’t have a direct satellite link … so a pilot from the RNZAF flew to Sydney… picked up the tapes and then NZers were able to see the footage about 4.5 hours later.

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stickmandiaries
stickmandiaries

@Miraz this reminds me of the film “The Dish” not NZ but still an interesting one for how tech has moved on now.

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smokey
smokey

@Miraz Back in the days when everything wasn’t instantaneous!

One of the newspapers I inherited from one of my great-aunts is one of the Miami papers’ moon landing coverage, and the front-page photo…is the astronauts practicing exiting the LM in a swimming pool weeks before ;-)

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