{"id":637,"date":"2013-02-15T06:36:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T06:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=637"},"modified":"2013-02-15T06:36:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T06:36:44","slug":"crowdfunding-the-lunar-orbiter-image-recovery-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"Crowdfunding the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Wingo announces a crowdsourcing campaign to fund the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonviews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project<\/a> (LOIRP). This\u00a0<i>technoarchaeology<\/i> (&#8220;mining the past to support science in the future&#8221;) seeks to recover images from recorded on analog magnetic tapes from the five NASA\u00a0 lunar orbiter missions between 1966 and 1967.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/denniswingo.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/14\/lunar-orbiter-image-recovery-project-crowdfunding\/\" target=\"_d\">Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project Crowdfunding\u2026. &#8211; denniswingo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockethub.com\/projects\/14882-lunar-orbiter-image-recovery-project\" target=\"_d\">Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project | RocketHub<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1IKPIEcK0j8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Wingo announces a crowdsourcing campaign to fund the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP). This\u00a0technoarchaeology (&#8220;mining the past to support science in the future&#8221;) seeks to recover images from recorded on analog magnetic tapes from the five NASA\u00a0 lunar orbiter missions between 1966 and 1967. Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project Crowdfunding\u2026. &#8211; denniswingo Lunar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=637\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crowdfunding the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-ah","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1253,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=1253","url_meta":{"origin":637,"position":0},"title":"Crowdsourcing for Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project raises substantial funds","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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