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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Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project Releases New Image
A Lunar Orbiter Image Last Seen 47 Years Ago “After being forgotten for nearly 47 years, three high resolution images taken by the Lunar Orbiter II spacecraft have been rediscovered […]
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People Will Write Checks To Explore Space (update)
Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project: how you can help save historic space data, Boing Boing “The LOIRP team managed to obtain original tape drives from the 1960s (covered in dust […]
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Turning Junk Back Into Useful Hardware
Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project: how you can help save historic space data, Boing Boing “The LOIRP team managed to obtain original tape drives from the 1960s (covered in dust […]
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The Floor of Copernicus
Copernicus Crater Mosaic, NASA Lunar Science Institute “This mosaic of the floor of crater Copernicus was created by combining the following 24 high resolution images taken by Lunar Orbiter V […]
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Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project Seeks Public Support To Retrieve Apollo Era Moon Images
Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project Seeks Public Support To Retrieve Apollo Era Moon Images “The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) is seeking support from the public as it continues […]
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Supporting the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project
House of Representatives Honors Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project, Congressional Record “As with the Lunar Orbiter’s images themselves, the efforts of those who have devoted themselves to this project should […]
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Dumpster Diving for Science
According to Science magazine: NASA Dives Into Its Past to Retrieve Vintage Satellite Data: “They cleaned, rebuilt, and reassembled one drive, then designed and built equipment to convert the analog […]
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Please Help Support the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project
“We are looking for people to help us complete the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP). We call this technoarchaeology – mining the past to support science in the future. […]
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A New Look at Old Images
Lunar Orbiter 3 Image 3121_H1 – Tsiolkovskiy Crater Keith’s note: This newly retrieved high resolution image, frame 3121_H1, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 3 on 19 February 1967 at 19:22 […]