“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 […]
Lunar Orbiter
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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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John Newcomb
NASA Langley Engineer and Author John Newcomb Dies “An engineer at NASA’s Langley Research Center during the critical Apollo years and those that successfully landed Viking on Mars, John Foster […]
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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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Earthrise and Earthrise
NASA Releases New Apollo 8 Earthrise Simulation Video “NASA has issued a new visualization of the events leading to one of the iconic photographs of the 20th Century – Earth […]
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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 […]