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First fax from the moon fifty years ago

Professor Tim O’Brien from Manchester University’s Jodrell Bank Observatory tells the story of the fax machine which helped scientists at Britain’s Jodrell bank observatory intercept a Russian signal and print out the first picture of the moon’s surface.

(Photo credit: The Lovell Telescope © ´óÏó´«Ã½/Will Dohrn)

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