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Thursday, July 29, 2010

From the Moon to McDonalds

The Lunar Orbiter mission results, a scientific treasure trove of images, were little studied and barely saved from trashing. Space entrepeneurs Keith Cowing and Dennis Wingo found the data tapes stored in a defunct McDonald's restaurant and set about retrieving the images. Kudos to these two scientific detectives!

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