Apollo 11 images re-produced.

[Mike]

High-resolution images of Apollo 11's Moon landing on 21 July 1969 have been re-produced. The original film was removed from a double freezer, thawed and digitally scanned.

They can be seen at //www.apolloarchive.com

[Rick]

Good photos!

[Whitters]

Cool!

[Ian]

or did they just go back to original ones taken on the soundstage and *not* apply the fuzzy filter?

[Mike]

Well with digital technology they can easily erase the wires and shadows to make it look more realistic of course !  

[Rick]

Highly detailed photographs of the Moon taken by the Apollo missions are being made available to the public for the first time in more than 30 years.

Photos taken on the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions in the 1970s showed the Moon in great detail but were only ever viewed by a few scientists.

More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6966655.stm
And: http://apollo.sese.asu.edu/METRIC_PREVIEW/index.html

[Rick]

An Australian scientist hopes to restore a vintage, refrigerator-sized IBM tape drive stored in a museum to recover Apollo moon mission data the space agency misplaced nearly 40f years ago.

NASA's only means of measuring moon dust during its Apollo missions has gone largely unappreciated until recently, reports Australia's ABC News. Now the trouble is getting a 1960s-era IBM 729 Mark V tape drive necessary to read the data up and running.

More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/11/vintage_ibm_tape_drive_moon_dust_data/
ABC: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/10/2415393.htm

[Rick]

...and on the same sort of theme, film from the Apollo 11 launch taken by a high-speed camera close to the initial action. See: http://vimeo.com/4366695