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Apollo-Era Photos Now Up at NASA's Flickr Account, In High-Res

Posted by timothy on from the fruits-of-operation-paperclip dept.

Boing Boing reports that NASA has uploaded to its Flickr account 8400 photographs from the agency's Apollo days -- "just about every image captured by Apollo astronauts on lunar missions." The astronauts were shooting with some very nice cameras, and the results are worth seeing at 1800dpi.

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  1. How about that by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    We get to see Neil's blurry thumb 2,000 times.

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    1. Re:How about that by ihtoit · · Score: 3, Informative

      Actually, both are correct. "Learnt" is the outside-the-US variant spelling (ie, the Oxford spelling). "Learned" is the American (Webster) spelling.

      Citation, you don't have to take the word of an English teacher and the son of an English teacher.

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    2. Re:How about that by Mostly+a+lurker · · Score: 3, Informative

      The etymology of words is interesting, but has limited application in deciding correct modern forms and usage. As anyone who knows a little German would recognize, the word "learn" is Germanic in origin, explaining the original past tense of "learnt". The trend is towards using regular English endings in words with Germanic roots. Thus, "learned" has been an acceptable past tense of "learn" in all dialects of English for quite some time. Indeed, apart from in British English, the older form "learnt" has almost died out.

  2. Actual proper Silly question but.... by camperdave · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actual proper Silly question but.... The moon landing was 45 years ago. Why are these only being released now?

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    1. Re:Actual proper Silly question but.... by 50000BTU_barbecue · · Score: 4, Informative

      They've always been available; as printed books. I have NASA Gemini mission books that are nothing but plates.

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  3. Accomplishments by thinkwaitfast · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can fool all of the people all of the time if your effects budget is large enough
    Chill out. It's a joke.

  4. Re:why should I sign up for public domain pix. by ihtoit · · Score: 5, Informative

    asked then answered: the full resolution images are accesible in list view here arranged by mission and referenced by film cassette and frame number. Tidy. :)

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  5. It's not just me by J-1000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's good to know I'm not the only one who has to take a million crappy photos before I get a good one.