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Digitized Apollo Flight Films Available Online
Pooua writes "SpaceRef reports that NASA and Arizona State University have teamed up to offer all of NASA's Apollo lunar films online at no charge. The images are scanned from the original films at high resolution, then offered as 16-bit TIFF or 8-bit PNG or ISIS files. The project is expected to take 3 years, but some images are already available. The ASU-NASA website is located at the Arizona State University Apollo Image Archive."
For any interested parties, the Apollo Archive is another great project to put Apollo media online.
You should see this movie.
Done years ago. It's why planetologists talk about periods like the Late Heavy Bombardment.
They are not films. They are simply photos from film. Big difference.
You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.
The amazing story that did "leak out" after the collapse of the Soviet Union was that not only was there a tacit confirmation of the Apollo program... but that the Russians really were in a "space race" to get to the Moon as well. Discoveries of a Russian lunar lander (not just a prototype, but a real working machine capable of landing on the surface of the Moon), documents about some of the cosmonaut training for going to the Moon, and some of their plans for how they were going to accomplish the task were uncovered.
The only thing that kept the Russians from getting there first was that they made a few mistakes in trying to scale up their rocket designs, as the Russian equivalent to the Saturn V blew up on the launch pad taking out several workers and destroying nearly all of the launch equipment. Had some better engineering decisions been made at the right time not too much earlier, and it would have been a Russian instead of Neil Armstrong who could have first planted a flag on the Moon. For P.R. spin purposes, the Russian government after 1969 claimed that it was never a goal to get to the Moon in the first place and killed any attempts to restart the program.
I have no doubt that then or even now the Russians could build and develop independently the capability of getting to the Moon... and do so for a fraction of the cost of the Apollo program.
The only way to truly put these rumors to rest is to wait for the day when a Dateline:NBC reporter shows up at the site of the Apollo 11 landing and plants his foot next to Neil's and Buzz's footprints. Unfortunately that is still several decades away from happening, and is much more likely that Dateline:NBC will be canceled as a TV show first. Even then, there will still be skeptics who will claim at that time the U.S. government will have a secret committee who set up the models from the Hollywood back lot and put them on the Moon as a sort of rewriting of history... once ordinary people can go to the Moon and check it out for themselves.
NIX is still online: NIX Home I can only speculate about the difference between NIX and AIA, but I suspect that NIX only has images that have been cataloged up to now, not necessarily every Apollo image on film. AIA is supposed to scan all the stills, eventually. Maybe AIA will share the results with NIX?
Taking stuff apart since 1969 (TM)
I realize someone mentioned apolloarchive, but Nasa also has an incredible amount of Apollo material online.
Almost everything you want to know about the mission op's is here.
The Apollo 11 landing from 11 minutes out is amazing, including the 1202's. But I have to admit, the one that sends shivers down my spine every time I watch it is Apollo 17. Cernan & Schmitt's reaction after the pitchover when they see the landing zone is better than anything you've ever seen in a movie, ever.
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