Apollo 10 TV as seen at Honeysuckle


 

Apollo 10 TV at HSK

Station Director Tom Reid kept three photo-album pages of Polaroid photos of Apollo 10 TV as it was received at Honeysuckle Creek.

Photos were taken during the last television transmission, about 5 hours before re-entry. The sequential colour TV was displayed on the black and white NTSC monitor of the scan converter.

(The sequential colour signal was reconstituted as a standard NTSC colour signal in Houston.)

With thanks to John Saxon. Scans by Colin Mackellar.


Apollo 10 TV at HSK

Apollo 10 Commander Tom Stafford holds up cards with pictures of Snoopy and Charly Brown, the Charles M. Schulz cartoon characters after whom the two Apollo 10 spacecraft were named.


Apollo 10 TV at HSK
Apollo 10 TV at HSK

Corresponding frames from the NTSC converted picture as recorded at Houston.


Apollo 10 TV at HSK

Just before the end of the broadcast, viewers see Tom Stafford (top), John Young (centre) and Gene Cernan.


Apollo 10 TV at HSK
Apollo 10 TV at HSK

John Young – top, as photographed on the monitor at Honeysuckle
– below, from the converted colour TV as recorded at Houston.

HSK photo: Large, Larger.


Apollo 10 TV at HSK
Apollo 10 TV at HSK

Gene Cernan – top, as photographed on the monitor at Honeysuckle
– below, from the converted colour TV as recorded at Houston.

HSK photo: Large, Larger.


Apollo 10 TV at HSK
Apollo 10 TV at HSK

Tom Stafford – top, as photographed on the monitor at Honeysuckle
– below, from the converted colour TV as recorded at Houston.

HSK photo: Large, Larger.


Colour comparison frames captured by Colin Mackellar
from Mark Gray’s Spacecraft Films DVD set (with thanks).