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Last week, up to 100 tapes, clearly marked “NASA Manned Space Center”, turned up after a search in a dusty basement of a physics lecture hall at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia. One of the old tapes has been sent to the American space agency to see whether it can be deciphered and ‘stripped’ of any important data which may have survived the ravages of time.
The data are a daily record of the environmental conditions and changes taking place at the lunar site after the Eagle landed safely in the Sea of Tranquility. The most important data were collected after the lunar module blasted off the surface later that day, leaving the still-running instrumentation behind.
The information showed that scientific instruments could be affected by setting them up around landing or take-off sites. They also proved that NASA did go to the Moon.
The data represented, “the only long-term information on the lunar surface environment, and as such are ideal for planning future lunar missions,” according to NASA’s website. [...]
[COSMOS magazine]
After a long time searching it looks like they may of been found. Glad to hear considering just this last month’s Wired Magazine was ringing the doomsday on this. But in the long run five months isn’t too bad for having to look all over the world, and with little or no record keeping.
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