The 1969 moon landing happened, and there’s some cool technology behind the president’s phone call to the astronauts.
Wired, the call"bounced to Manned Space Flight Network dish antennas scattered around Earth, traveled 238,000 miles to the Apollo Lunar Module, and finally hopped to its ultimate destination: antennas attached to the backpacks carried by Armstrong and Aldrin."
The call used technology developed by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Geological Survey and several corporate contractors, including BellCom, the Bell System subsidiary that was formed at NASA’s request in 1952 and employed scientists from Bell Labs.by General Dynamics Corp. enabled the communications between Apollo 11 and Mission Control, according to the aerospace and defense company, and it had to be designed to withstand extreme cold, heat and radiation.
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