[Paleo Conservative]

I had to excerpt. It's worth reading the whole article. It has lots of links and pictures.

I couldn't fit the whole title into the alloted space. I am posting it here in order to maximize the amount of material I can excerpt.

The lost NASA tapes: Restoring lunar images after 40 years in the vault

A Mac Pro and 40-year-old tape drives are helping restore the original Lunar Orbiter tapes

[Paleo Conservative]

Detail of the Earthrise picture taken by
the first Lunar Orbiter in 1966, as
r endered at the time.

Detail of the Earthrise picture taken by
the first Lunar Orbiter in 1966, rendered
with modern technology.

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[Dr. Sivana]

A Mac Pro and 40-year-old tape drives are helping restore the original Lunar Orbiter tapes

Gee. Couldn't they at least use an SE/30?

In any event, I hope they maxed out the RAM to 4MB!

[mylife]

Dennis Wingo, how apropos

[Paleo Conservative]

Here's a link to the Moonviews website. They have news updates and images from LOIRP. Be careful some of the image files are extremely large (ie over 1 GB).

http://www.moonviews.com/

[UCANSEE2]

Thanks for posting this article.

And I did go and read it in it’s entirety.

It was really worth spending the time to read all 5 pages.

Everyone should.

[Tainan]

Macs in space ping.

[Constitution Day]

BTTT for tomorrow

[djf]

Great. More pics to make Richard Hoagland foam at the mouth...

[zeugma]

Too bad they lost all the original video. Only a government agency could be so incompetent that they’d lose the only hi-quality video of one of the most important moments in human history.

[BufordP]

Wasn’t you that was telling me about this at the Christmas party?

[Current Occupant]

Yup, I remember seeing some of those pics when I worked at NASA. Worked nights for a while on the computers and the pics were on some of the desks of the engineers.

Of course I was just snooping around.

[Rodamala]

I could have sworn I recently saw an article saying the tapes recorded at Perth of the Apollo 11 landing were found. So, I just went looking after not finding it on FR.

Article saying Apollo 11 tapes have been found?

[Swordmaker]

The lost NASA tapes: Restoring lunar images after 40 years in the vault

A Mac Pro and 40-year-old tape drives are helping restore the original Lunar Orbiter tapes

PING!

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[tubebender]

Y’all might be interested in this story and link considering your age and all...

[Paleo Conservative]

Supposedly the long tapes of the high resolution slow scan video recordings of the Apollo 11 moon walk have been found in Australia.

WORLD EXCLUSIVE: NASA FINDS MISSING MOON LANDING TAPES
Daily Express (UK) ^ | Sunday June 28 2009 | Ted Jeory
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2289466/posts?page=1
Posted on 7/9/2009 10:44:21 PM by Rodamala

[Paleo Conservative]

NASA Holds Briefing to Release Restored Apollo 11 Moonwalk Video

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=28712

These aren’t from the lost telemetry tapes but from the the scan converted broadcast signal at NASA. Still apparently they are from the best available copy prior to the telemtry tapes being found.