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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Building Things For Use on the Moon
Moon Work Design Contest Offers NASA Internships to Winners “The 2010 NASA Moon Work engineering design challenge seeks to motivate college students by giving them first-hand experience with the process […]
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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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Will Someone Please Wake Up ARC PAO?
The Wet Side of the Moon, Opinion, NY Times “From the perspective of human space exploration, that water is the most important scientific discovery since the ’60s. We can drink […]
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Moon Water = Gold
Water on the Moon!, opinion, WS Journal “But for scientists, the real money shot is the data pouring in from that impact. True, it was a risk. Yet the cost […]
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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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A Wet Moon Is Hot Once Again
Keith’s 14 Nov note: Word has it that NASA JSC has a stealth “Project M” underway whereby it would place a lander on the Moon in 1,000 days – once […]
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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 […]
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Moving On To New Things In Space
An Astronaut Explains How We’ll Fall In Love With Space Again, Leroy Chiao, Gizmodo “The Constellation Program was a reasonable path, five years ago, when the Vision for Space Exploration […]