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 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 172 Joined: 17-March 06 Member No.: 709 |
Concerning the plan for the LMSS, I may have a photocopy of the memo, but it may take some time to track it down. As I recall, the purpose of this short memo may have been to reiterate reasons for continuing the LMSS project, which probably puts it in 1967. Again, it came as a shock to me to realize that thought had been given to what to do if the first manned Apollo landing ended with silence. Also, again I would appreciate any technical info on the LMSS project. For instance, did the Pan and Metric cameras, used in the Apollo J flights, migrate to the SIM Bay from the LMSS? On the subject of the previous post - Roger Launius' upcoming talk about the Surveyor 3 camera and the Possibility of Life in the Universe, I hope that he will not be spreading the Urban Legend about Strep microbes surviving for 3 years on the Moon. The Space History quarterly, QUEST, will be publishing a letter, from me, in its next issue, in which I expand on the highly questionable "evidence" that microbes survived in the Surveyor 3 camera for 3 years. In brief, it is highly probable that a miscue by a lab tech contaminated the sample which indicated signs of life. In addition, only 1 out of 33 samples so tested showed positive evidence of microbes. The dramatic suggestion that microbes are tough enough to survive on the Moon for 3 years has been accepted all too readily by historians and scientists, who should know better. As Carl Sagan eloquently stated, "Extraordinary claims require exraordinary evidence." The Surveyor 3 microbe claim does not meet this requirement, and hence my label of Urban Legend for that claim. Another Phil |
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