The Dish DVD 2000 Műholdvevő a birkák közt / Directed by Rob Sitch / Starring: Sam Neill, Tom Long, Rosalind Hammond

UPC 5996051010066

MADE IN EU

REGION 2 PAL DVD

AUDIO: English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0

Subtitles: Hungarian

TOTAL RUNTIME: 97 MINUTES

English Summary:

The radio telescope at Parkes (Parkes Observatory), New South Wales, was used by NASA throughout the Apollo program to receive signals in the Southern Hemisphere, along with the NASA Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station near Canberra.

In the days before the July 1969 space mission that marked humanity's first steps on the Moon, NASA was working with a group of Australian technicians who had agreed to engineer a space-to-Earth interface to carry the video and telemetry signals from the Lunar Lander Eagle on the Moon and relay them to the rest of the global audience, estimated then at some 600 million people. The dish antenna used had to be large, as the signals expected from the spacecraft were very weak and easily lost; NASA had to use the Parkes radio telescope, situated in the middle of an Australian sheep farm. There were some background concerns at NASA about using the Parkes antenna, mainly technical, as the signals had to go via point-to-point microwave links to get re-transmitted globally.

Hungarian Summary:

Az emberiség Holdra szállásának napja igen ferde tükörből. 1969. július 19-én az egész emberiség együtt büszkélkedett az Apollo 11-es űrhajó legénységével és bámulta a Holdra lépő ember első lábnyomát. Kevesen tudják, hogy az egyenes közvetítés igencsak nehezen jött össze. Igaz történet alapján készült film a találékony ausztrál mérnökökről, akik dacolva a nehézségekkel 600 millió ember számára biztosították a technikát a nagy lépéshez. A NASA emberei féltették a méregdrága parabola-antennát az ausztrálok kezébe adni, akik egy birkafarm kellős közepére telepítették a technikát. Az amerikaiak aggályoskodásait rendre lerázta a komolynak nem nagyon mondható csapat Cliff Buxton vezetésével.

Cast / Szereplők:

• Sam Neill as Cliff Buxton
• Patrick Warburton as Al Burnett
• Tom Long as Glenn Latham
• Kevin Harrington as Ross "Mitch" Mitchell
• Roy Billing as Bob McIntyre
• Eliza Szonert as Janine Kellerman
• Tayler Kane as Rudi Kellerman
• Billy Mitchell as Cameron
• Roz Hammond as Miss Nolan
• Christopher-Robin Street as Damien
• Luke Keltie as Graeme
• Naomi Wright as Melanie
• Ben Wright-Smith as Nicholas
• Beverley Dunn as Secretary v/o
• Grant Thompson as Mr. Callen
• Bille Brown as Prime Minister John Gorton
• Lenka Kripac as Marie McIntyre
• Neil Pigot as the newspaper reporter
• Frank Bennett as Barry Steele