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Newly Restored Lunar Orbiter Image of Earth and Moon (Detail)

Portion of newly restored Lunar Orbiter 1 image. Originally taken on 23 August 1966 and restored by the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project at NASA Ames Research Center. Larger image. Credit: NASA/LOIRP

Posted by Keith Cowing on November 13, 2008 1:00 PM | Permalink

Comments (5)

Thomas:

Thanks for doing this work - it's great to see these 40 year old photos being revived.

These pictures took a substantial amount of money and work to take originally and are a heritage of mankind, it would be a shame for them to be lost.

Posted by Thomas | November 14, 2008 8:34 AM

Posted on November 14, 2008 08:34

paul west:

please send me e mails of of any imagies you get daily thank you paul west

Posted by paul west | November 14, 2008 9:37 PM

Posted on November 14, 2008 21:37

Kit:

Thanks for this. I'm glad to see there's people still out there with the foresight to save and restore this piece of history for us.

Though we were presented with only a few of the originals 40 years ago I have little doubt the few we were shown I will remember - my teen years were spent following our space exploration.

Posted by Kit | November 15, 2008 8:46 AM

Posted on November 15, 2008 08:46

JeffW-Htos1:

Thanks to all involved,you are beyond cool. :)
If I lived there I would volunteer my engineering skills in analog gear as well.This era inspired my childhood and I've loved my career.Cheers!

Posted by JeffW-Htos1 | November 15, 2008 5:07 PM

Posted on November 15, 2008 17:07

Angela:

This is gorgeous and thank you so much for doing this! I was a little girl during the moon missions, and it was such an exciting time. This photo makes me a little nostalgic for Earth in the 1960s though--we have done so much damage since then.

Posted by Angela | November 16, 2008 10:19 AM

Posted on November 16, 2008 10:19