{"id":1253,"date":"2013-03-21T05:43:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T05:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2013-03-21T05:43:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T05:43:33","slug":"crowdsourcing-for-lunar-orbiter-image-recovery-project-raises-substantial-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"Crowdsourcing for Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project raises substantial funds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glad to see that the crowd-sourcing campaign to support the recovery of image<\/a>s of the Moon on magnetic tape date from unmanned lunar probe missions in the 1960s has succeeded in raising substantial funding: Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project – RocketHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They didn’t reach their goal of $75k but $62,560 is a lot more than the $10k or so they had just a couple of weeks ago. Help from Boing Boing<\/a> and others made a big difference in the final push.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Glad to see that the crowd-sourcing campaign to support the recovery of images of the Moon on magnetic tape date from unmanned lunar probe missions in the 1960s has succeeded in raising substantial funding: Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project – RocketHub. They didn’t reach their goal of $75k but $62,560 is a lot more than … Continue reading Crowdsourcing for Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project raises substantial funds<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-the-moon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-kd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":637,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=637","url_meta":{"origin":1253,"position":0},"title":"Crowdfunding the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Dennis Wingo announces a crowdsourcing campaign to fund the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP). 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