1966 Lunar Orbiter image tapes rescued in LA Times: via AmpexFR-900

[Dan Roganti]

Pontus wrote:
> I'm waking up an old thread here, but this sounds like related and good
> news:
>
> http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/110442/WORLD-EXCLUSIVE-NASA-finds-missing-moon-landing-tapes
>
> Not sure how reliable that is, but I hope it is :)
>
>   

There's a nice movie about the Parkes Observatory in Australia and the 
Apollo moon landing, "The Dish", 2000. They went into great detail in 
using the original equipment, a PDP system and more, inside the control 
room. The majority of the moon landing video --about 2.5hrs-- was taken 
off the feed from the Parkes Observatory - which, for some reason, had 
the best signal strength at the time between all three receiving stations.

=Dan

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