“Nancy Liggett Evans 11/22/1937 – 1/17/2020 was born to M. Margaret and Dr. Robert Samuel Liggett in Denver Colorado. She was married to E. Wayne Bamford bearing a daughter Megan […]
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NASA Ignores Its Own Cool Stuff Again
Today in 1966, the 1st view of Earth in the vicinity of the Moon was taken by Lunar Orbiter I. It was designed to scope out the lunar surface for […]
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NASA Lists ISEE-3 Reboot as 2nd Largest Crowdfunded Space Effort
Emerging Space: The Evolving Landscape of 21st Century American Spaceflight, PDF, NASA Office of the Chief Technologist “Crowdfunding offers space organizations avenues for fundraising outside traditional institutional methods. Sites like […]
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Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project Documentary by Carnegie Museum of Art
Would-Be Rescuers of Wayward Spacecraft Previously Solved a NASA Mystery, New York Times “Before reviving a zombie spacecraft, Dennis Wingo and Keith Cowing traveled to the past to rescue a […]
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Recovering Space History Inside an Old McDonalds
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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Earth Before Earth Day
Earth Before Earth Day “Long before man journeyed to the moon and looked back at the tiny, fragile planet that houses humanity, remote orbiters were sending back pictures of home. […]
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Looking at Earth From the Moon (Again) in 1966
The ‘Other’ Lunar Orbiter 1 Earthrise Image, Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project “A newly enhanced image of Earth taken from lunar orbit 47 years ago has been released. The image, […]
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Another Forgotten Earthrise Revisited
Another Lunar Orbiter Earthrise Retrieved and Enhanced, Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project “The other day, as we were going through tapes from Lunar Orbiter IV we came across a picture […]
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Forgotten Apollo Era Moon Imagery Found
Misplaced High Resolution Lunar Orbiter Imagery Found After 46 Years “High resolution imagery from the Lunar Orbiter program, forgotten for nearly 50 years, has been retrieved from original data tapes. […]
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Lunar Orbiter Imagery On The Big Screen
Lunar Orbiter Imagery Presented on NASA Ames Hyperwall 2, Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project “Last week one of the images retrieved by the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) was […]