Apollo 8 Pool Coverage

On March 8, 2014 - TV History

Apollo 8 Pool Coverage

If you studied yesterday’s NBC operations coordination plan from Gemini 5, you saw the back bone of a structure that had been in use from the Mercury days on, and would be used through the Apollo missions. There would be changes and different assignments occasionally, but a routine familiar to all the players was a good thing. For coverage from NASA’s Manned Space Flight Center in Houston, NBC relied on KPRC’s GE PE 350s for their news reporting and pool feeds. Below is KPRC’s Steve Corbit on the scene in December 1968. Thanks to Art Hackett and Fred Schultz for the photo.

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4 Comments

  1. Stephanie Folan March 8, 2014

    So cool!! That’s my dad!!

  2. Joseph R Cannizzaro March 8, 2014

    Good one, Todd…brings back memories, as a process engineer at IBM’s Space Guidance Center,…we were building the Gemini guidance computer…exciting times…

  3. Jeff Arrington March 8, 2014

    I work with Steve Corbit at KFDX-TV in Wichita Falls,TX!

  4. Steven Davis March 8, 2014

    I noticed that the camera in the Apollo 8 Firing Room exhibit at KSC was a period-incorrect RCA TK-45, which would be more 1973-74 time frame. I was hoping to see a GE PE-250/350, or Norelco PC-70!