Lawmakers propose coin to honor Christa McAuliffe, fallen Teacher in Space

I'll be danged, I never knew that. It fits the available evidence, though; I still remember that moment with crystal clarity and was wondering why they'd send such a crappy camera to the moon.

 

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We had one of the first "remove control" TV's. The remote was literally a "clicker", it make a loud click-ping sound and required no batteries.

 

I find it odd that the Christa McAuliffe middle school is in Texas while she was from New Hampshire. Did they NOT name a school after her in New Hampshire?

Actually, they did. She has schools named after her all across the country.

 

Now that I think of it, I recall that with the TV Set, we figured out that we could "clap" our hands loudly and it would change the channel. It was probably one of the first "clap on/clap off" set ups.

 

Probably. A lot of the tapes from the Apollo 11 mission were reused and written over for later missions.

 

RIGHT! We discovered by accident too! LOL

I also discovered a certain key on my toy xylophone would work too.

 

It is presumed that the originals (Apollo 11 pictures) were lost or destroyed.

 

Several - there is a Elementary school in Lewisville ISD. One in McAllen, TX, one in CA. etc.

 

Incorrect.

The TV camera on the Moon used a slow scan television (SSTV) broadcast format. The NASA ground receiving stations then performed real time scan conversion to the NTSC television format (which was the TV broadcast industry standard at the time). The SSTV format was in black and white, but it was superior in quality to the NTSC that people saw on TV.

 

That's interesting as most TV dials were set up on A POT ( Potentiometer ) type dials and were hard or stiff to turn. The motor to run the dial I can understand but they had infrared remotes back then? Just curious. I've been playing with old radios since I was a kid but stayed away from TV's. I didn't want to be kicked in the dupa if I touched on that voltage that was stored in them.

 

Tommy I believe it was a radio signal in the early remotes. Might be wrong.

 

The old TVs ( especially the early color tubes) had such high voltage they produced x-rays. The front of the picture tube was leaded glass about an inch thick to block them from the viewers. As they left the market the old tube front was often drilled to release the vacuum and then the leaded glass cut into "sparkling jewels" by facetors. I have some pieces around. One of my friend's dad had such a TV back then and put it in the middle of the large family room so "grannie" who had horrible vision, could put her chair near the back to listen to the storyline.