![]() ![]() Please e-mail me (Kris) for any questions, ich spreche Deutsch, je parle Français.Ĭlick on Thumbnails to Supersize Pictures The blackened-out parts of the screen in some of the still photos are caused by missing synchronisation between camera and TV and are absent in live view. The picture has good brightness and contrast and the sound is perfect. During the video volume, contrast and brightness tests are performed. Watch a short video (click on pict.26) with the TV playing a section of "Casablanca". The better way would be the use of a 75/300 ohm TV antenna transformer adapter, readily available in many thrift stores and on eBay. The set was tested with a VCR connected directly to the antenna with a piece of wire. The chassis was cleaned and all moveable parts were treated with contact spray (pict.22). The same TV, but with visible scratches, a chipped escutcheon and chrome pitting on tripod and antenna recently sold for $850, or was estimated to be worth $1500-2000, in non-working condition (ref.1). The antennas and the tripod are free from any corrosion. The two 39" antennas are original, complete and straight. The screen escutcheon has no chips as often found on this model. There are no scratches on the cabinet except a little mark on the back (center of pict. ![]() The TV is in mint visual and working condition. Model TR-0005 and TR-005C differ only in the part number for the power transformer (ref.3). Unique features of this TV are a) its pearl grey aluminum like color, b) that it rotates 180 degrees on its chrome tripod, c) its twin antenna of 39" length each. It looks very much like Sputnik 1 with its two long antennas, or like the model of a typical flying saucer, with its belt resembling viewing windows around the spacecraft. The 1971 Panasonic Orbitel TR-005C is the third of five space age TV's for sale. A prominent example is the 1957 flatware made by Arne Jacobsen (pict.22 of my Video Capsule writeup), used in the Space Odyssey and still sold after 57 years for $20 a piece on eBay. Scientific and military progress had triggered Googie and atomic age designs in architecture and industry and space age designs for basic commodities, fashion, music and arts. From then on, amplified by the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle accidents in 19 and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 public perception of space exploration got dominated by its dangers (Apollo 13, the Film 1995, "Houston, we have a problem") and costs (conspiracy advocates are still convinced that the moon landing was faked by using left-over scenes from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 movie "2001: A Space Odyssey") space exploration shifted to unmanned missions and to the private sector, respectively. (LM pilot) accomplished the first manned lunar landing and lunar surface exploration (EVA), watched by over 500 million people around the world. Armstrong (commander), Michael Collins (CM pilot), Edwin E. On July 16-24, 1969 Apollo 11 (Columbia and Eagle) on a Saturn V with the astronauts Neil A. The projected price tag was an incredible $25 billion dollars. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important in the long-range exploration of space and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish". Kennedy on radically altered the direction of the program by saying: "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth. Speaking to Congress and the Nation, President John F. ![]() The Apollo program was launched to do space exploration around (but not on) the Moon. First US launches (Vanguard) were disastrous, but the foundation of NASA in 1958 made missions like Pioneer 4, Mercury, Gemini, and finally Apollo great successes. This surprise success started the space race and what we today call the space age, succeeding but still being part of the atomic age, and precipitating the cold war between USSR and USA. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched world's first satellite, Sputnik 1 into an orbit around planet earth, and 4 weeks later Sputnik 2 with dog Laika on board. Third of my five new Space Age TV's, in Museum-like ConditionĪttention Earth People, I am called "Orbitel". 1971 Panasonic Orbitel TR-005C Space Age Flying Saucer TV ![]()
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