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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Nemesis on August 13, 2006, 10:27:48 am
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Link to full article (http://www.space.com/news/060813_apollo11_tapes.html)
Back in July 1969, the first moonwalks by Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are frozen forever moments in the history books. But it turns out that millions of riveted spectators back on Earth were on the receiving end of substantially degraded television showing the epic event.
The highest-quality television signal from Apollo 11’s touchdown zone in the moon's Sea of Tranquility—from an antenna mounted atop the Eagle lunar lander—was recorded on telemetry tapes at three tracking stations on Earth: Goldstone in California and Honeysuckle Creek and Parkes in Australia.
Scads of the tapes were produced—and now a search is on to locate them. And if recovered and given a 21st century digital makeover, they could yield a far sharper view of that momentous day, compared to what was broadcast around the globe.
But Apollo 11 is a memory rewind—now over 37 years old. Nobody is quite sure just how much longer the original slow-scan tapes will last … that is, if they haven’t already been erased.
Hopefully they will be found. Cleaned up and released into the wild.
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::Sigh:: I knew recording backdoor sluts 9 on those tapes would come back to haunt me.
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::Sigh:: I knew recording backdoor sluts 9 on those tapes would come back to haunt me.
You and your family movies.
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::Sigh:: I knew recording backdoor sluts 9 on those tapes would come back to haunt me.
You and your family movies.
You know what they say, a family that does porn together...
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::Sigh:: I knew recording backdoor sluts 9 on those tapes would come back to haunt me.
You and your family movies.
You know what they say, a family that does porn together...
... has kids with one eye and three arms?
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How did you know?
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How did you know?
He saw your class photo ... the one you didn't destroy or doctor.
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Ok, I can explain the goat...