This Week in Space, January 15, 2010 from Spaceflight Now on Vimeo. “Miles O’Brien and “This Week in Space” are back for their first show of 2010. In this episode: […]
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ARC PAO: Asleep At The Wheel
Keith’s note: Earlier this month the LOIRP – Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project did a live webcast from Building 596 at NASA Ames Research Park. The project’s co-lead Dennis Wingo […]
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The Boulders of Copernicus
“This image represents a portion of the central uplift within the crater Copernicus. The image, LOV-152-H1, was taken by Lunar Orbiter V on 16 August 1967 at an altitude of […]
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Live Webcast From The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project
Keith’s note: On Thursday, 10 December 2009, we’ll be doing a live webcast from the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) at “McMoon’s” i.e. Building 596 at the NASA Ames […]
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Boulder Trails On The Moon
Keith’s note: This image was taken on 21 November 1966 by Lunar Orbiter II at an altitude of 44 miles. The image is taken from frame 92, Framelet 445, and […]
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Lunar Orbiter: Comparing Old and New Images
Keith’s note: These images are taken from Lunar Orbiter II image LOII_092H1 Framelet 522. On the left is the highest resolution scanned version available online at LPI (or USGS). On […]
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Looking at Boulders on the Moon
Keith’s note: Tonight we are testing out our newest Mac computer at the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project located at NASA ARC. We’ll be using this machine (8 processors and […]
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Buying 40 Year Old Lunar Orbiter Tape Drive Parts on eBay
“Dennis Wingo: I thought this was interesting and since I am always looking for spares for our LOIRP FR-900’s I check it out on eBay. … When I looked I […]
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New York Times Waxes Poetic On The Moon (Again)
The Human Moon, Editorial, NY Times “Perhaps the wistfulness is caused by the sense of simple grandeur in those Apollo missions. Perhaps, too, it’s a reminder of the risk we […]
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Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project Video: Two FR-900 Drives Operational
“The LOIRP Project has reached a major milestone of having two Ampex FR-900 Instrumentation Tape Drives operational at once. This will allow us to accelerate the production of images. This […]