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 […]
Lunar Orbiter
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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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First Earthrise Photo Taken 45 Years Ago Today
Keith’s note: 45 Years ago today, on 23 August 1966, Lunar Orbiter 1 snapped the first photo of Earth as seen from lunar orbit. While a remarkable image at the […]
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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: […]
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Students Searching For New Craters on the Moon
LOIRP LPSC Student Poster: New Lunar Crater Search Using LROC-NAC vs LOIRP Lunar Orbiter Images “While some candidate craters were observed that appeared in LROC data but not in Lunar […]
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Have You Seen This Large Lunar Orbiter "Earthrise" Presentation from 1966?
Keith’s note: Does any one at NASA Langley Research Center (or elsewhere in/around NASA) know where this large reproduction of the Lunar Orbiter 1 “Earthrise” image (or others like it) […]
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Lunar Boulders ala 1966 and 2010
More Boulders As Seen By Lunar Orbiter 2 “This high resolution image, subframe 2128_H2, was taken by Lunar Orbiter 2 on 22 November 1966 at 20:18:27 GMT. Two areas containing […]