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Faulty Tape Recorder Hinders Retrieval of Galileo

Posted by Hemos on from the get-it-all dept.

Sponge! writes "In an article on space.com, NASA scientists struggled to get a balky tape recorder to work last Tuesday so they could retrieve some of the final data gathered by the aging Galileo spacecraft. It would be sad to see something like this prevent us from getting the data that we've waited so long for, and may have to wait even longer."

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  1. balky tape recorder by heldlikesound · · Score: 2, Funny

    was that some sort of Perfect Strangers product tie in?

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  2. Re:Why a tape recorder? by SN74S181 · · Score: 3, Funny

    It turns out the problem wasn't that they used a tape recorder.

    The mistake was that they selected a metric tape recorder.

    Who the hell knows where parts can be obtained for a metric tape recorder???