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I was five and I was lucky to watch it on our first TV with all my school mates.
John Sarkissen gave a great talk on the role of Parkes in the event. There are many misnomers according to him and Parkes was very lucky to pick up the signal even with the feed rotator moved right around. That is because of the telescopes horizon being 27 degrees with the feed rotator at its lowest.
Hoping to see the second lot of landings, that will make it twice for me. Mind you the picture was pretty terrible as I recall. It was really contrasted and hard to see what was really going on. With any luck this lot of landings will be in HD. Only 12 year to wait.
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