Talk:Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project

Improvements

A great way to improve this page would be to link to it from other pages. It has very few links and is only marginally out of the orphan category. Mellen22 (talk) 16:49, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

How many tapes are there? Mellen22 (talk) 08:06, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Sources

Story in the 3/22 LA Times that could be used: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-lunar22-2009mar22,0,1783495,full.story . howcheng {chat} 23:57, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Article quality class

I can't believe that this fine article was rated as start class. I raised it to B, regardless of the fact that I didn't check the accessibility. It really should be higher. It is clearly written, flows very well, and is complete - one of the best articles I've ever seen on Wikipedia in those respects. It seems like it was written by one person who knows exactly what he is writing about and how to do it (not a hodge podge from different editors like most articles are). IBubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 04:59, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Well, it could have more about what was done in the restoration process to make the photos so much better. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 05:01, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

tapes survived

How is it that these tapes survived and some important Apollo tapes did not? Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 05:02, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Original film footage

Whatever happened to the original 70mm Kodak Special High Definition Aerial Film (SO-368) footage that the data tapes were only automatic scans of, made inside the orbiters before they crashed on the lunar surface? Has NASA ever tried to recover those originals rather than the scan tapes? Because the restored images look like a modern scan from the original film material to me, rather than the automatic scan made inside the orbiters that was transmitted to earth via radio. --37.82.224.95 (talk) 19:08, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

Just to make sure, are you referring to the recordings made and stored in the spacecraft themselves? All spacecraft impacted the moon's surface at the end of their lives, meaning there are no tapes to recover. Further, the only opportunity to retrieve them would have been during the Apollo missions, and even attempting such an activity would have been too time consuming with very poor return on investment (the transmitted information, while not as high of quality as the original scans, was more than good enough for NASA's purposes). And regarding the LOIRP restorations, they are indeed modern scans from the original transmitted material, since no better sources exist of this material. — Huntster (t @ c) 21:51, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

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