The Hackers Who Recovered NASA’s Lost Lunar Photos, Wired “Sitting incongruously among the hangars and laboratories of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley is the squat facade of an […]
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John Houbolt
NASA moon landing engineer John C. Houbolt dies at 95, AP “John C. Houbolt, an engineer whose contributions to the U.S. space program were vital to NASA’s successful moon landing […]
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Looking for Original ISEE-3 Telemetry Tapes, Documents
Keith’s update: We REALLY Need this document: GSFC Document ISEE-733-74-001, Revision C, dated 28 June1976 “International Sun-Earth Explorer – A/C, Electrical Interface Specification”.  Does anyone have a copy? Keith’s note: We have […]
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Nelson Mandela
Message from the NASA Administrator: The Passing of Nelson Mandela “Yesterday, one of the brightest stars ever to shine upon planet Earth departed our galaxy with the passing of former […]
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Tweeting JFK and NASA
Meets with @NASA Administrator Robert C. Seamans, Jr., Sen. George Smathers, and others at Cape Canaveral pic.twitter.com/QriwVrGeTe — JFK_1963 (@JFK_1963) November 16, 2013
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Deep Space Music Network
Listening to the Deep Space Music Network, Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) “Dennis Wingo: A funny story from today. I was running a Lunar Orbiter tape today and all […]
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Earthrise Photographed 47 Years Ago Today
First Earthrise Photo Taken 47 Years Ago Today “47 Years ago today, on 23 August 1966, Lunar Orbiter 1 snapped the first photo of Earth as seen from lunar orbit. […]
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Wallops' Launch Record – Fact or Fable? (Revised)
Wallops History – Launching Excellence Through the Years (2010) “Established in 1945 under NASA’s predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) … Wallops launched its first rocket on July […]
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NASA at 55
NASA at 55, SpaceRef “President Eisenhower commissioned Dr. T. Keith Glennan, right, as the first administrator for NASA and Dr. Hugh L. Dryden as deputy administrator. The National Aeronautics and […]
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Columbia: Thinking Back â Looking Ahead
Excerpt from âNew Moon Risingâ, by Frank Sietzen, Jr. and Keith L. Cowing