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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May 1 2006, 03:08 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 172 Joined: 17-March 06 Member No.: 709 |
I want to comment on a memo that I saw in the NASA HQ History Office concerning the Apollo LMSS, the Lunar Mapping and Survey System. I am including it in this thread as I now think that the cancellation of the LMSS may have been connnected to the decision to hold off on the flight of Lunar Orbiter 6. I do not recall who sent the memo, but one of the details in it caught my immediate attention. One of the reasons for developing the LMSS, this memo indicated, was that it would enable a detailed photo recon, from lunar orbit, in case the first manned Apollo landing attempt ended in a crash. The memo seemed to indicate that the LMSS would provide photographic evidence in case there were no communications with the Apollo LM crew. Needless to say, I was flabbergasted by this memo. I had never heard of this justification for the LMSS. Does anyone in the UMSF community recall anything of this nature? In addition, does anyone have diagrams, artist's concepts, etc, of the LMSS? As far as the Internet, the LMSS appears to be a stealth program. I have not found anyone images of what the LMSS was supposed to look like. Getting back to Lunar Orbiter 6. According to Bruce Beyers' excellent history of the Lunar Orbiter, the 6th spacecraft could have been flown very cheaply. It could have produced complete Far Side photo coverage akin to LO 4's Near Side coverage. Is it possible that after having cancelled the LMSS, that NASA was holding Lunar Orbiter 6 "in its vest pocket" waiting to see the fate of Apollo 11? In addition, I find the LMSS crash recon story interesting in today's Mars program where we all are waiting to see what images from the MRO can tell us about the fates of the MPL and Beagle 2. Another Phil |
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