{"id":27157,"date":"2014-03-08T05:21:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T10:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=27157"},"modified":"2016-10-26T18:37:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T22:37:45","slug":"apollo-8-pool-coverageif-you-studied-yesterdays-nbc-operations-coordination-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=27157","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 8 Pool Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apollo 8 Pool Coverage<\/p>\n<p>If you studied yesterday&#8217;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&#8217;s Manned Space Flight Center in Houston, NBC relied on KPRC&#8217;s GE PE 350s for their news reporting and pool feeds. Below is KPRC&#8217;s Steve Corbit on the scene in December 1968. Thanks to Art Hackett and Fred Schultz for the photo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/photos\/a.197108410326716.39183.189359747768249\/644520758918810\/?type=3\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp_automatic_fb_img\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Apollo-8-Pool-Coverage-If-you-studied-yesterdays-NBC-operations-coordination-p\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/644523325585220\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apollo 8 Pool Coverage If you studied yesterday&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}