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, 08:52 AM
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Gadfry! That's a completely new one on me. I suppose it's possible, but the Lunar Orbiter history ("Destination Moon") says that the decision not to fly LO 6 was actually made before the launch of LO 5 back in 1967. I've had in mind for some time, as a future project, trying to get hold of "Destination Moon's" source documents on that decision -- but, once again, I find it hard to visualize a connection. Still, if there WAS a crash and its cause was uncertain from telemetry, NASA might very well have wanted to fly a reasonably cheap orbital recon mission to investigate the crash site, and dragging LO 6's spare parts out of storage to assemble it belatedly might very well have been a course of action they would have followed. (It should be remembered that LO 6 was never assembled -- they just thought they had enough spare parts manufactured in the LO program by then that they would have been able to assemble another LO for much less than the cost of the previous ones.)
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