Ranger, Surveyor, Luna, Luna Orbiter, 1960s Missions to Earth's Moon |
Ranger, Surveyor, Luna, Luna Orbiter, 1960s Missions to Earth's Moon |
Apr 21 2005, 08:07 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
Have any of the serious experts on this board ever sorted out any 1960s images? I'm thinking of the Surveyor panoramas (in the 60s they did it with photos pasted onto the inside of half-spheres!) and the way that the exposure dropped off toward one corner, making a horrible patchwork effect. Or them lines and spots on the Lunar Orbiter images...
Most of the NASA mission data should be available as digital source material, and thus could be manipulated, though I suspect that getting anything 'real' from Soviet missions would be a bit of a chase! Any thoughts? -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Apr 25 2006, 09:42 PM
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It was an Aviation Week issue all the way back from 1961, and I'd have to track it down at the Calif. State U.-Sacramento library the next time I get down there. It was quite detailed (including a picture). A little capsule capable of containing 1 pound of samples would have been mounted on a solid rocket sitting on a tiltable spin table fastened to Surveyor. It's an image of how US lunar exploration would probably have developed had we stuck to unmanned exploration.
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Apr 25 2006, 10:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
Bruce:
Thanks! Sometime soon I hope to have my run of early 'Spaceflight' and JBIS out of storage, and I'll have a look there too - I know there were photos in that of the fully-instrumented Surveyor (two cameras, big vertical box thing (the drill?)) which might be of interest. Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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