- Sometimes I encounter people who pretend that spacecraft operators can hide where their spacecraft are. Then I remind them of things like this:
- 🌙 On this day in Jodrell’s history... In 1966, the first close-up photographs of the lunar surface - taken by the Soviet #Luna9 spacecraft - were received at Jodrell Bank, with help from an early type of facsimile machine (a picture receiver) borrowed from the Daily Express newspaper. 📸: JBO / UoM