Passing Away of a Great Engineer: Stan Lebar

[jhalphen]

Good day Gentlemen,

A sad day, i learned today via French Forum RadioFil the passing away of retired Westinghouse TV Engineer Stan Lebar on Dec 23rd 2009:

http://retro-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=232387

A sad event, for me and probably for many of you who were fortunate enough to witness his presentation at this year's ETF Convention in April.

Stan Lebar headed the Westinghouse Space TV Camera group during the essential Apollo program decade, 1960-1970. Thanks to his pioneering engineering, billions of viewers lived the lunar landings live all over the planet.

Still photos of his ETF April presentation can be viewed on the ETF site:

http://www.earlytelevision.org/2009_...ntations2.html

Steve, will you perhaps release the film (YouTube,...) of his presentation which was streamed on the Internet during the Convention. 8 months before Stan's departure, this is now a historical document, retracing his entire career at Westinghouse and involvment with the NASA Apollo program.

Goodbye Stan, kudos! Hats off and Hail! to a great engineer, team leader and kind person who gave the world the great privilege of living the Space Race right in your own living room, we will miss you...

Best Regards

jhalphen
Paris/France