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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. Contents of tape by Hard_Code · · Score: 4, Informative

    The contents of the tape are as follows:

    "do you get this thing to play?"
    "Just push play"
    "I already did that"
    "You did? Did you push the button with the arrow?"
    "The arrow? What arrow? I pushed the button with the dot...but I'm not hearing anything"
    "Shit"

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