We will go to the moon and take these pictures

[cojak]

+1. The futurologists never predicted an unofficial group of scientists, funded by donations from around the world, re-activating a long-lost space probe from an abandoned McDonalds

8th August - watch that space.

[NickFitz]

And take a look at the ISEE-3 Reboot project.

Space College: ISEE-3 Reboot Project Archives

You can keep up to date on Twitter @ISEE3Reboot

Science crowd-sourcing at it's best.

+1. The futurologists never predicted an unofficial group of scientists, funded by donations from around the world, re-activating a long-lost space probe from an abandoned McDonalds

[cojak]

And take a look at the ISEE-3 Reboot project.

Space College: ISEE-3 Reboot Project Archives

You can keep up to date on Twitter @ISEE3Reboot

Science crowd-sourcing at it's best.

[NickFitz]

Excellent links! Thanks

You can follow along as the 45th anniversary of the flight continues at http://apollo11.spacelog.org

[Sysman]

An old one but good one.

NASA Fakes Moon Landing! Photographic Proof!

[Uncle Albert]

Wow, great link. Thanks.

[zeitghost]

Not because it is easy but because it is hard.

And then we'll recover them using stuff stored in someone's garage for 30 years or so.

Moonviews

Interesting documentary.

That recorder is a transverse scan rotating head machine, much like an instrumentation version of the Ampex quadruplex VTR.

Gosh.

And for the hardware enthusiasts, here's the Ampex FR-900 in all its glory.

Moonviews: Tapes and Drives Archives

It appears to be a transverse scan video recorder somewhat repurposed.

Here's the Ampex brochure for the FR-900.

Yours for a mere $300k in real uninflated 1965 $.

http://www.digitrakcom.com/literatur...ure%20FULL.pdf

And should you have a spare Saturn V hanging around somewhere, here's someone who can reverse engineer the computery out of it:

Welcome To The Lab Of An Apollo Computer Anatomist | Popular Science

Loved the antique Tek scopes.

It was all green fields around here when they were new.