Die USA verfügten in den 1960er-Jahren über extrem hochwertige Bilder des Mondes, um die Mondlandungen zu planen, verheimlichten diese jedoch vor der Öffentlichkeit. Es brauchte ein Team in einem verlassenen McDonalds, um sie 50 Jahre später zu digitalisieren.
https://theindieg.co.uk/mcmoon-how-the-earliest-images-of-the-moon-were-so-much-better-than-we-realised/
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It’s amazing those guys managed to save those drives and transferred before the parts ran out. Same situation today with VCRs and even DVD players disappearing before people can transfer out their old home movies.
McMoon still lives at ARC, though I think it’s just used for storage now! My coworker and I drove over and stuck our faces up to the glass to peer in recently 😂
Eyyyyy!! I was apart of the team put together to splice the photo strips together!!
We worked on around 10000 photos in this project. Orbiter 5 had over 5000 photos alone.
Few people today have ever heard of the three unmanned lunar programs that ran alongside as full partners to the Mercury-Gemini-Apollo programs. They were the Ranger, Orbiter, and Surveyor missions. Without them there would have been no crewed landings. Very worth learning about.