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World Service,2 mins

First fax from the moon fifty years ago

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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 © BBC/Will Dohrn)

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