First Earthrise Photo Taken 46 Years Ago Today “46 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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New Uses for Old Moon Data
Comparing Moon Boulders: Lunar Orbiter (1967) Vs LRO (2012) “[Left] image taken on 11 August 1967 by Lunar Orbiter 5 [Right] Image taken of the same location by LRO in […]
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Printing The Moon One Character At A Time
Printing The Moon, Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project “As clever as we thought we were, we were not the first team to tackle the issue of generating high resolution imagery. […]
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Crater Copernicus In All Its Glory
Iconic Lunar Orbiter Image of Copernicus Re-released, LOIRP “Today an iconic image from the initial exploration of the Moon is being re-released showing detail that could not have been seen […]
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Technoarchaeology: Learning New Things from Old Technology
Technologies that we’ve lost – and the quest to find them again, io9 “I asked NASA Watch’s Keith Cowing about this, and he explained that this is just an urban […]
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LRO Offers New Look at Apollo Landing Sites
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Images Offer Sharper Views of Apollo Landing Sites “NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and […]
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Watching The Beatles As They Did Their Sound Check – From The Moon
Nimbus II and Lunar Orbiter 1 Imagery: A New Look at Earth in 1966 “To date some of the images taken by Nimbus II have been enhanced and mapped into […]
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McMoon's Gets a Special Visitor
Keith’s note: I had a rather special guest visit me today at the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) at Building 596 (aka “McMoon’s”) at NASA Ames Research Center. Dan […]
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Lee Scherer
Lee Scherer, KSC’s 2nd leader, dies at 91, Florida Today “Lee Scherer, who led Kennedy Space Center through its last major transition between human spaceflight programs, will be remembered in […]
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How Lunar Orbiter Images Were Recorded 45 Years Ago
How Lunar Orbiter Images Were Recorded 45 Years Ago April 1967: “Fifty Years of Data in One Week: Recently, Oran W. Nicks, NASA’s Director of Lunar and Planetary Programs, remarked: […]