"Everybody knows, a humungous thing happened on Sunday,
July 20th, 1969 at exactly 4:17E.D.T. The 'Eagle' has landed.
Bingo. Just like that. Man became an alien." -- Janet Turpin
Myers, Nightswimming
And for years the first images I saw from the moon made me ask, 'Doesn't that look upside down?' Turns out... it was! I think one of the original cameras on the LEM got mounted incorrectly. They 'fixed' it by turning the monitor the television camera was shooting upside down.
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And for years the first images I saw from the moon made me ask, 'Doesn't that look upside down?' Turns out... it was! I think one of the original cameras on the LEM got mounted incorrectly. They 'fixed' it by turning the monitor the television camera was shooting upside down.
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