The Hackers Who Recovered NASA’s Lost Lunar Photos(wired.com)

121 pointsby waterlesscloud12 yıl önce15 comments

The Hackers Who Recovered NASA’s Lost Lunar Photos

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/lost-lunar-photos-recovered-by-great-feats-of-hackerdom-developed-at-a-mcdonalds/

16 comments

xemoka12 yıl önce

Wired seems to often not include links directly to whom they're writing about. Check out the LOIRP at http://www.moonviews.com/ and find some of the original images they've recovered... along with lots of other great information.

rkuykendall-com12 yıl önce

Traditionally-print publications have a huge problem with linking to whatever they are talking about. I've seen articles about a video which don't link to the video the article is about.

dublinben12 yıl önce

It's even worse when a publication has hyperlinks in seemingly-relevant places, but they're just a link to that keyword on their own site.

chris_va12 yıl önce

Interestingly, this is often because writers are not allowed to add links. Links are the domain of the editors, which is a separate union.

Blogs get around this by not being published "articles", so the author can add their own linking. This is one reason why "blogs" are called out so explicitly on news websites.

subdane12 yıl önce

New York Times is getting better about this, I've been surprised to regularly see links to Youtube videos in their articles!

NAFV_P12 yıl önce

> Between 1966 and ’67, five Lunar Orbiters snapped pictures onto 70mm film from about 30 miles above the moon. The satellites were sent mainly to scout potential landing sites for manned moon missions. Each satellite would point its dual lens Kodak camera at a target, snap a picture, then develop the photograph. High- and low-resolution photos were then scanned into strips called framelets using something akin to an old fax machine reader.

Before they were doing this, spy satellites would hurl the data back to Earth in a capsule, then use a plane to try and pick it out of mid-air. You had to wear gloves when pulling it into the plane's cargo hold, the capsule would have been searingly hot. One time the recovery crew saw a Soviet submarine in the waves beneath them, from then on they stuck to radio transmissions only.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(satellite)

watson12 yıl önce

This have been an ongoing project for many years and a lot of really nice articles have come out over the years. I remember once seeing a lot of nice photographs from the old McDonalds restaurant that showed some nice details about their setup.

The guys even have their own Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_Image_Recovery_Pr...

ColinDabritz12 yıl önce

This is amazing work, beautiful pictures. See also, their ISEE-3 Reboot project: http://www.rockethub.com/42228

sp33212 yıl önce

Submitted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7636013

ballard12 yıl önce

BusinessWeek (2013) also has a video interview at McMoon:

http://businessweek.com/videos/2013-08-15/abandoned-mcdonald...

Also yelp reviews of the former McD's (map position is wrong)

http://yelp.com/biz/mcdonalds-mountain-view-4

Correct map locating McMoon (green arrow):

http://goo.gl/maps/LhQGw

picea12 yıl önce

I found the 2009 Computerworld article worth reading too.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9134771/The_lost_NASA...

sp33212 yıl önce

So, how do I get a wall-sized print of these?

_random_12 yıl önce

When you spend that much money on a scientific project (Lunar program) you should get as much PR as possible.

roywiggins12 yıl önce

Honestly I'd love to know what tech they used to print the images out back in 1967.

neckro2312 yıl önce

Here you go: http://www.moonviews.com/2012/06/printing-the-moon.html

conectorx12 yıl önce