NASA's early lunar images, in a new light

[Rick]

Evans was at her desk in the 1970s when a clerk walked into her office, asking what he should do with a truck-sized heap of data tapes that had been released from storage.

"What do you usually do with things like that?" she asked.

"We usually destroy them," he replied.

More: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-lunar22-2009mar22,0,1783495,full.story

[Rick]

...and some commentary on archiving digital data:

See http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6199