Before the Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969, NASA did not have a reliable way to transmit data generated in space back to Earth.
The network itself consisted of evenly-spaced antenna facilities placed around the world, with one in California's Mojave Desert, one in Spain and two in Australia, so that one of them was always going to be facing the moon as the Earth rotated.
Publisher: Nextgov.com
Date: 2023-06-16T15:50:00 00:00
Author: John Breeden II
Twitter: @nextgov
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