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192K views · 7.4K reactions | Apollo 17 Liftoff from Moon - December 14, 1972 - via @nasa (https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17v_1880127.mpg)

How the shot was realised?
"The answer: With a camera on the lunar rover that could be controlled — or even programmed — from Earth.
The camera was available on Apollos 15, 16 and 17. The television camera communicated from Earth using a high-gain antenna on the rover, but there was a slight time delay for the radio waves to travel (a couple of seconds) between the Earth and the Moon.
Pretty impressive technology for the takeoff more than fifty years ago on December 14 in 1972 — although it took three tries to get the technique right.
So the engineers suggested moving the rover a certain distance from the lunar module and setting the camera to auto Lunar Rover, Nasa Moon, Lunar Module, Lunar Landing, Lunar Surface, Apollo Program, Nasa Apollo, Radio Waves, Moon Space

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