Over 30 years ago, July 20th 1969, the world was glued to its TV sets in anticipation of Man's first landing on the moon......
FOY WAS THERE!
Amongst them
was an apprehensive group of designers and engineers gathered at Grumman
Aircraft. They were responsible for building the Lunar Module which had
never been tested successfully in the Earth's atmosphere.
Among those present was Peter
Foy. He too was apprehensive. Not that he was in any way responsible
for the success of the mission. His only responsibility was simulating
the actions of the Astronauts in the event the TV feed was lost.
He was in one of the Grumman
Aircraft hangars which had been filled with rocks to simulate the lunar
surface. In the middle of all of this was a full scale model of
the LEM, an Astronaut (with wires attached), Mr. Foy, an assistant, and
of course, a camera.
As we now know, the landing was
successful, and there was no break in the coverage. This was much
to Peter's relief as their lunar landscape looked nothing like the place
where they landed on that historic day.
