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Apollo 11 Photographs Unfrozen 544

Posted by michael from the closeups-of-the-sound-stage dept.
GoneGaryT writes "Wow! NASA has pulled another set of photographs, this time of Apollo 11's trip, out of the freezer and digitized them. They are glorious. I'm just checking out the first ever 'Earthrise' sequence and they are beautiful." I'll cherry-pick a few for you: 1, 2, 3.
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Apollo 11 Photographs Unfrozen

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  • zip files. (Score:5, Funny)

    by mpost4 ( 115369 ) * on Thursday July 22, 2004 @09:47AM (#9769528) Homepage Journal
    To make sure they never get lost (the digital ones at lest) they should make a zip file of them and put them up on kazza.

    But for real any one know where I can get all the pics in a zip and/or a tar file.

    But that earth rise is just a great sight, and also the pic of the earth from a distance is just .... ( I don't have the words to say what I felt looking at that picture, other then small)

  • No foresight... (Score:5, Funny)

    by grub ( 11606 ) <slashdot@grub.net> on Thursday July 22, 2004 @09:47AM (#9769535) Homepage Journal

    What JFK should have said was "I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth with pictures that will scale properly as wallpaper on computer monitors not yet invented."

  • Hmm, 250kb images. (Score:4, Funny)

    by ParticleMan911 ( 688473 ) on Thursday July 22, 2004 @09:49AM (#9769560) Homepage
    Time 'till NASA Slashdottining: T-Minus 10... 9....

  • Attention Conspiracy Nuts! (Score:5, Informative)

    by aiabx ( 36440 ) on Thursday July 22, 2004 @09:49AM (#9769562)
    Please go to http://www.badastronomy.com/ [badastronomy.com] before you waste our time and bandwidth with your moon-hoax crap.
    -aiabx

    • What Moon-Hoax Crap? (Score:5, Funny)

      by goldspider ( 445116 ) on Thursday July 22, 2004 @10:03AM (#9769678) Homepage
      It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)

      Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, Byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors! The next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.

      Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!

      Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.

  • Pictures 1,2,3 mirrored (Score:5, Informative)

    by tcopeland ( 32225 ) * <tom@NoSPaM.thomasleecopeland.com> on Thursday July 22, 2004 @09:49AM (#9769563) Homepage
    ...right here [cougaar.org].

  • In other news... (Score:4, Funny)

    by halivar ( 535827 ) <.bfelger. .at. .gmail.com.> on Thursday July 22, 2004 @09:50AM (#9769569)
    NASA uses the same computers aboard Apollo 11 to host their web-site.

  • Behind the third rock from the left... (Score:4, Funny)

    by R.Caley ( 126968 ) on Thursday July 22, 2004 @09:51AM (#9769572)
    You can just see Ossama burrying Iraq's WMDs.
  • Didn't we just go through a thread full of hoax theorists?

    These pictures are very clean BTW. Very nice BG for your desktop even.

  • If we can put a man on the moon ... (Score:5, Funny)

    by bryanp ( 160522 ) on Thursday July 22, 2004 @09:51AM (#9769578)
    Then why can't we put those pictures up on a site that can withstand a good slashdotting?

  • Keeping Space Alive (Score:4, Insightful)

    by artlu ( 265391 ) <artlu@art[ ]net ['lu.' in gap]> on Thursday July 22, 2004 @09:52AM (#9769593) Homepage Journal
    NASA needs to do more to remind Americans of the importance of space to the future of mankind. Things like this that get Nasa's name back in the public eye by showing objects of celestial beauty will hopefully remind people of what is out there.

    GroupShares Inc. [groupshares.com]

  • Fake! (Score:2, Funny)

    by spoodie ( 641820 ) *
    Obviously fake; there's a suspicious gap in the flagpole and there's crosses all over the place.

  • Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)

    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Thursday July 22, 2004 @09:57AM (#9769631)
    Comment removed based on user account deletion
  • Looking at the third picture. I think to myself:"how the hell did we go up there, with what looks like glue, all over the spaceship. It looks so cheap!"

  • these have been altered! (Score:2, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    These pictures have been altered. I distinctly remember there being an MTV flag up there from when I was a kid.
  • Can someone explain why the flag in pic 2 seems to be waving? It's not like there is an atmosphere around there is it?

  • Mirror of Images (Score:5, Informative)

    by diagnosis ( 38691 ) on Thursday July 22, 2004 @10:14AM (#9769769) Homepage
    As the site is rapidly getting slashdotted, here is a mirror of a few of the best images (more added as they become available and are awesome):

    Apollo 11 Mirror (select images) [visorenterprises.com]
    ---------------
    ChipotleLovers.com [chipotlelovers.com]
    Chipotle food, locations, pics, links, polls and discussion!
  • that it made it into space?

    reminds me of the Star Wars quote

    "You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought!" - Princess Leia
    • Not only did they come AND leave in that thing, but the landing program was written in FORTRAN, and the computer crashed something like three times during descent.. ...all before Windows!
  • if we were to send astronauts to the Moon again, they'd bring back hi-rez DV footage!
  • Great. [visorenterprises.com] We've just landed on a new space rock and already we're littering it with Hefty Cinch-Saks.

    This will surely impress the Intergalactic Council whenever we're up for membership.
    • You're making the common mistake of assuming that the Intergalactic Council would care what we do with a cold, dead, gray lump of rock and dust that orbits our home planet.

  • Nice Work (Score:5, Funny)

    by Bob9113 ( 14996 ) on Thursday July 22, 2004 @10:55AM (#9770196) Homepage
    Wow! These new images are the best yet. The shadows are all going the same direction, you can't see the movie set reflected in the visors, and there's no apparent line where the backdrop meets the stage. And they managed to build a set that looks virtually identical to the original set from the 60's. You've got to hand it to NASA for listening to public feedback and making a more believable set of photographs.
  • Ok, is it just me, or did we not manage to slashdot a server by linking to images?

    Come on, people, click on that link! Don't just assume a slashdotting can happen without you. :)

  • My Father and My Grandfather Were At NASA Then Too (Score:5, Interesting)

    by ausoleil ( 322752 ) on Thursday July 22, 2004 @11:12AM (#9770387) Homepage
    I have not digitized all that I can find as of yet, but my family and I are working on a project to put all of my Grandfather's and (after him) my Father's papers and photographs from Cape Kennedy through the Apollo effort as well as Mercury and Gemini.

    http://www.ausoleil.org/exhibits/vlpinson

    A little background:

    My Grandfather, V.L. Pinson, was Chief Telemetry Officer as well as MIS Manager for Cape Kennedy in the 1960's, not to mention duties he performed in the 1950's at ABMA (Army Ballastic Missile Agency) in Huntsville, and White Sands prior to that. While it is very incomplete, mainly because he died in 1988, we're continue to work on this and those interested in some of the minutae of space history might enjoy reading through some of the peronal effects of someone who was there.

    PS: I saw Apollo 11 launch in 1969. We lived in Titusville, and saw the launch from the Bennett Causeway. Dad had a better view: As Missile Commander in charge of astronaut safety, he was in a foreward blockhouse about one kilometer from the launch itself. He and his team were there to provide rescue services for the astronauts had something gone wrong and Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins had needed to escape the launch vehicle.

    As it was, Apollo 11 broke windows in my house, which was 6.5 nautical miles from the launch pad. Most Saturn V launches did.

    It was a great thing going to sleep at night by light of a floodlit missile that was pointed at the moon. Even better was going fishing as a young child with my Grandfather's buddies -- Debus, Armstrong, Grissom, Scott Carpenter, a few others.

    You had to be there.

  • You mean before the photographs had totally melted and were a chemical soup, and they somehow refroze the chemicals into the exact form of the original, frozen photograph? Amazing!

  • Buzz's attitude...Neil's professionalism (Score:5, Informative)

    by droopus ( 33472 ) * on Thursday July 22, 2004 @11:26AM (#9770581)
    With all the hoax talk, I thought I'd mention something actually concerning the missions.

    I'm a bit of a 60's/70's space nut. I read all the books recently published (Gene Kranz's "Failure is not an Option", Chris Kraft's "Flight" and Gene Cernan's "Last Man on the Moon" are all incredible) and think the boxed "From the Earth to the Moon" DVD set might be the best thing HBO ever did.

    Anyway.

    Did you notice there are no (or very, very few) camera shots of Neil, but loads of Buzz? That's because Buzz was a bit of a PITA about the mission. He whined for months about not being the first out of the LEM, even after Deke Slayton told him the mission schedule. He tried to take it higher, using his deep religious feelings with politicians to try and be the first man out, but failed.

    He did bring along a tiny Communion set and did indeed take Communion just after landing. But he was still pissed, and this was reflected in his refusal to use his camera much, if at all. The only shots of Neil were frame grabs off the LEM mounted 16mm cam.

    Neil however, took loads of pics of Buzz, using the belly mounted Hasselblads they both had. So, Buzz became immortalized because there were simply more photos of him...saluting the flag, that classic closeup, etc.

    Interesting that the attitudes of the astronauts weren't discussed much till decades later, NASA wishing to preserve the "rock star" image of the men.

    I highly recommend reading at least one of the above books, probably this one [amazon.com] which has a special if you buy it with Flight, Kraft's great book.

    Both show just how amazing the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs were, and just how analog their equipment was.

    Sadly the books will also give you a clue why a program like Apollo will never happen again in America, unless something radically changes.

    • Re:Buzz's attitude...Neil's professionalism (Score:5, Insightful)

      by ausoleil ( 322752 ) on Thursday July 22, 2004 @11:59AM (#9770996) Homepage
      I knew Neil Armstrong, albeit as a young child.

      "Rock star"? Neil certainly was not that. He was (and is) an exceptionally gifted engineer and pilot, and a man who did the job the best he could. He was also an humble man, as evidenced by his lack of visibility in the years after Apollo 11.

      Neil was a brilliant man doing a tough, dangerous job. He did so cooly and with professionalism. That's why he was America's best civilian test pilot prior to his stint in NASA. That's also why he was the best choice to lead Apollo 11 into the rare air where the great explorers are.

      Few people today realize the danger and risk that was involved in the moon missions. Think of this: look at how far technology, from it's most basic levels of materials science and mathematics have evolved *since* 1969. The Saturn V was arguably the most powerful machine built in all of recorded human history (that was not a bomb) and to this day, no launch vehicle has ever matched it's sheer lifting capaibility. It had the power of a small atomic weapon, and three men would climb on top and strap their butts to it. All with less computing power than your car.

      They did it, and they did it with bravery. Not the kind of foolish bravery associated with a glory hound, but the kind of quiet bravery that marks a true HERO in every sense of the world.

      I was there, and I said goodbye to Apollo 11 from five miles away as she lifted into the skies of a sunny Florida morning. I knew one of the men on the machine, and I had four family members who had important jobs that got them to the moon and back safely.

      I am proud of them all, and they all had their roles. Aldrin may have been seeking glory, that is for history to decide. Nevertheless, the best choice was Armstrong, and as a result, his name belongs with Columbus, Erikkson and other great explorers who opened the doorway for all humanity to place that none had been before.

      Perhaps it will take a century or more for history to truly appreciate the scope of that they did.

  • Hoax would have required Soviet cooperation (Score:4, Informative)

    by soldeed ( 765559 ) on Thursday July 22, 2004 @11:54AM (#9770947)
    OK all you conspiracy advocates, if the moon landings were faked, then explain to me why would the soviets have let us get away with it? They had deep space tracking capability, and the glaring lack of actual spacecraft going to the moon beaming back telemetry data and voice comm would have been a dead giveaway! I grew up in the sixties, and on launch mornings the pre launch broadcasts usually included a shot of the Soviet 'fishing' trawlers hanging off the coast observing the proceedings. The spacecraft could be tracked with radar all the way to, around, and back from the moon. They sent that Luna mission to try to return samples and steal our thunder, (which we were able to track) but crashed instead. After the failure of their own manned lunar program The Soviets would not have tried such a foolish stunt themselves because they knew they would'nt have been able to fool anyone, and neither would we! To this day, no one in the soviet government or space program, has ever made any suggestion that we did'nt actually go to the moon.
    • That's because the Soviet Union was alsoa fake. We worked it out with the Russians and related states to keep the Chinese under control.

      If only we had realized that Chinese communism was also a fake (perpetrated by the parents of today's Nigerian scammers).

      Next up: The EU hoax

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