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An electronics engineer with no previous TV experience, Fendell faced his toughest challenge at the end of the lunar visit. Left behind on the moon along with the rover, the remotecontrolled camera was scheduled to give the world its first pictures of a lunar lift-off taken from the moon's surface. Because of the nagging time lags, Fendell could not afford to look at the TV monitor himself. He had to go completely by the clock. At exactly T-minus-zero, Fendell had to begin tilting the camera upward. Thus, by the time his command reached the moon, the camera would—he hoped—follow Falcon's ascent stage until it drifted off the tube. Then, in order to bring it back into sight, Fendell would have to press an-other button precisely two seconds after liftoff, ordering the camera to pull back to a wide-angle view. Noting NASA's —and the public's—keen interest in watching the lunar liftoff, Fendell conceded that "if we don't see it, I'd better get out of town."