NASA Had High-Res Images of the Moon in the '60s, So Why Couldn't We See Them?

NASA Had High-Res Images of the Moon in the '60s, So Why Couldn't We See Them?

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Finally, in 2007, Evans made one last-ditch effort to find someone who would carry on their project. Those people were space entrepreneur Dennis Wingo and NASA engineer Keith Cowing, who began self-funding their own project, the Lunar Orbiter Recovery Project, to restore the images. They set up shop in an abandoned McDonalds, rebuilt the tape drives, digitized the data, and used that data to manually reassemble every image in Photoshop. When they successfully reproduced the famous Earthrise image, they got NASA's attention — and their funding.

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November 14, 2018 at 09:11AM