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Apollo 11
by Dejan Ristanovic 20 Jul '19

20 Jul '19

As They Shot It, pre-di-vna 3D vožnja kroz objektiv haselblada: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/18/science/apollo-11-moon-landi…

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FW: Schneider Electric učvršćuje prisustvo u Srbiji kao najveća IT kompanija u zemlji
by Danijela Kudrić 19 Jul '19

19 Jul '19

Drage kolege, Molim vas da objavite ovu vest. Hvala vam. Pozdrav, Danijela Kudrić From: Tanja Vdovic [mailto:Tanja.Vdovic@represent.rs] Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2019 1:02 PM To: Tanja Vdovic Subject: Schneider Electric učvršćuje prisustvo u Srbiji kao najveća IT kompanija u zemlji Poštovane koleginice i kolege, Schneider Electric, lider u digitalnoj transformaciji upravljanja energijom i automatizaciji nastavlja da ulaže u najveći IT centar za upravljanje elektroenergetskim sistemima, SEDMS NS. Kompanija je sada u celosti u vlasništvu Schneider Electric-a. Vodeći proizvod SEDMS NS-a, softver ADMS, predstavlja najnaprednije rešenje na svetu koje omogućava upravljanje sistemima za distribuciju električne energije. Zahvaljujući rešenju ADMS, značajno se redukuju operativni troškovi, dok se istovremeno povećava bezbednost i održivost elektroenergetskih sistema koji ga primenjuju. U prilogu je saopštenje sa više informacija i fotografija novog generalnog direktora kompanije SEDMS NS Luisa Dakoste, koju potpisuje Zoran Petrović. Srdačno, Tanja <https://www.represent.rs/> Tanja Vdović Vučetić | Media Relations Specialist T: +381 11 71 52 500 F: +381 11 71 52 520 M: +381 63 384 256 Knez Mihailova 1/II, 11000 Beograd, Srbija <http://www.represent.rs/?fbclid=IwAR3mSZtqWmKxe-rcB1BHavX_vT2sE3FV2kVkzTZKZ…> www.represent.rs <https://www.instagram.com/representcom/> <https://www.youtube.com/user/RepresentCom> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/represent-communications/> <https://www.facebook.com/RepresentCommunications/> Represent Communications is a Weber Shandwick affiliate. Weber Shandwick is a leading global public relations firm with offices in 81 countries around the world. The firm has won numerous awards for innovate approaches and creative campaigns. Weber Shandwick is part of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG). ♣ Don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Kazakhstan government is now intercepting all HTTPS traffic | ZDNet
by Dejan Ristanovic 19 Jul '19

19 Jul '19

https://www.zdnet.com/article/kazakhstan-government-is-now-intercepting-all… Kazakhstan government is now intercepting all HTTPS traffic Kazakh government first wanted to intercept all HTTPS traffic way back in 2016, but they backed off after several lawsuits. By Catalin Cimpanu for Zero Day | July 18, 2019 -- 19:38 GMT (12:38 PDT) | Topic: Security See also 10 dangerous app vulnerabilities to watch out for (free PDF) Starting Wednesday, July 17, 2019, the Kazakhstan government has started intercepting all HTTPS internet traffic inside its borders. Local internet service providers (ISPs) have been instructed by the local government to force their respective users into installing a government-issued certificate on all devices, and in every browser. The certificate, once installed, will allow local government agencies to decrypt users' HTTPS traffic, look at its content, encrypt it again with their certificate, and send it to its destination. Image: Eugene / via Bugzilla Kazakh users trying to access the internet since yesterday have been redirected to web pages that contained instructions on how to install the government's root certificate in their respective browsers, may it be a desktop or mobile device. For example, this is the page shown by local ISP Kcell, and this is another one that Beeline is showing to its customers. Kazakhstan government says it's for the best Local ISPs started forcing their customers into installing the government's root certificate yesterday, following an official government announcement. In a statement posted on its website, the Kazakh Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace said only internet users in Kazakhstan's capital of Nur-Sultan will have to install the certificate; however, users from all across the country reported being blocked from accessing the internet until they installed the government's certificate. Some users also received SMS messages on their smartphones about having to install the certificates, according to local media. Ministry officials said the measure was "aimed at enhancing the protection of citizens, government bodies and private companies from hacker attacks, Internet fraudsters and other types of cyber threats." Government previously failed in 2015 The Kazakh government first tried to have all its citizens install a root certificate in December 2015. At the time, it ruled that all Kazakh user had to install their root certificate by January 1, 2016. The decision was never implemented because the local government was sued by several organizations, including ISPs, banks, and foreign governments, who feared this would weaken the security of all internet traffic (and adjacent business) originating from the country. At the same time in December 2015, the Kazakh government also applied with Mozilla to have its root certificate included in Firefox by default, but Mozilla declined. Currently, browser makers like Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla are discussing a plan of action on how to deal with sites that have been (re-)encrypted by the Kazakh government's root certificate. No decision has been reached, at the time of writing. Related government coverage: Sweden and UK's surveillance programs on trial at the ECHR EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in mysterious outage Microsoft demos ElectionGuard technology for securing electronic voting machines Bulgaria's hacked database is now available on hacking forums Hacker steals data of millions of Bulgarians, emails it to local media US mayors group adopts resolution not to pay any more ransoms to hackers How Estonia became an e-government powerhouse TechRepublic Sri Lanka blocks social media after deadly Easter explosions CNET Sent from my iPad 2018

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FW: Apel grđanima da iskoriste zakazani termin za izdavanje ličnih dokumenata koji su podneli putem Portala eUprava
by Vesna Čarknajev 18 Jul '19

18 Jul '19

Za objavu. Ineče, taj sistem realno radi, lično sam testirala. I prozvali me u minut tačno sa zakazanim vremenom. Pozz Vesna Čarknajev CEO PC Press | Osmana Đikića 4 | 11000 Beograd | Srbija Tel: +381 11 2765-533 | Mob: +381 63 234-801 E-mail: <mailto:vesna@pcpress.rs> vesna(a)pcpress.rs From: Marija Nikšić [mailto:marija.niksic@ite.gov.rs] Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 12:12 PM To: Marija Nikšić <marija.niksic(a)ite.gov.rs> Subject: Apel grđanima da iskoriste zakazani termin za izdavanje ličnih dokumenata koji su podneli putem Portala eUprava Importance: High Poštovani, U prilogu vam dostavljamo apel za građane, koji su zakazali termin za izdavanje ličnih dokumenata putem Portala Uprava u nekoj od uprava policije da taj termin i iskoriste ili ga na vreme zamene za drugi. Uprava za upravne poslove je u proteklom periodu primila više žalbi građana da su svi ponuđeni termini na Portalu eUprava koji se odnose na zakazivanje termina za izdavanje ličnih dokumenata zauzeti i da nisu u mogućnosti da zakažu termin u roku od 14 dana. Iz tog razloga je Ministarstvo unutrašnjih poslova u saradnji sa Kancelarijom za IT i eUpravu omogućila građanima da od 4. marta 2019. godine , mogu da zakažu termin za podnošenje zahteva za lična dokumenta, putem Portala eUprave za narednih 60 kalendarskih dana , umesto dotadašnjih 14. Saopštenje za medije se nalazi u prilogu. Srdačan pozdrav, Marija Марија Никшић / Marija Niksic Односи са јавношћу Public Relation Канцеларија за информационе технологије и електронску управу Office for Information Technologies and e-Government <http://www.srbija.gov.rs/> Немањина 11, 11000 Београд, Србија / 11 Nemanjina St., 11000 Belgrade, Serbia tel/fax: + 381 (11) 7358 400; mob: + 381 (60) 82 28 420 e-mail: marija.niksic(a)ite.gov.rs <mailto:marija.niksic@ite.gov.rs> ; url: www.ite.gov.rs <http://www.ite.gov.rs/> ; --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Vesti u cetvrtak
by filip＠pcpress.rs 17 Jul '19

17 Jul '19

Drage kolege vestopisci, Molim vas da sutra, u cetvrtak, svi koji budu okacili vesti posle 10h ujutru ujedno i sami puste vest, kao da se radi o danu vikenda. Sve do nekih 15-16h popodne necu biti uz racunar jer idem na Asus Day, pa nema potrebe da cekaju vesti skoro ceo dan na objavu. Sve sto bude okaceno do 10 ujutru ja cu pustiti. Hvala puno! Pozdrav _________________ Filip Majkić Executive Editor Digital Media Manager PC Press | Osmana Đikića 4 | 11000 Beograd | Srbija Tel: +381 69 311-78-22 E-mail: <mailto:filip@pcpress.rs> filip(a)pcpress.rs

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FW: Saopstenje za medije_ Fondacija Novak Djokovic_Podrska dobrim idejama kroz projekte i edukativne dogadjaje
by Danijela Kudrić 17 Jul '19

17 Jul '19

Drage kolege, Molim vas za objavu ovog saopštenja. Hvala vam. Pozdrav, Danijela Kudrić Milićević Marketing assistant PC Press | Osmana Đikića 4 | 11000 Beograd | Srbija Tel: +381 11 2765-533 | Mob: +381 63 821 69 23 E-mail: <mailto:danijela@pcpress.info> danijela(a)pcpress.rs cid:image002.jpg@01D4A9BD.D0A47960 From: Jelena Belicevic [mailto:jbelicevic@newmediateam.rs] Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 12:30 PM To: 'Danijela Kudrić' Subject: Saopstenje za medije_ Fondacija Novak Djokovic_Podrska dobrim idejama kroz projekte i edukativne dogadjaje Draga Danijela, Najlepše vam hvala što ste se odazvali pozivu na jučerašnje druženje. Nadamo se da vam je bilo prijatno. U prilogu šaljem kratko saopštenje kojim se najavljuju projekti i planovi saradnje Fondacije Novak Đoković, magazina Original i kompanije VODAVODA. Fotografije iz priloga možete slobodno koristiti. Foto: Vesna Lalić Srdačan pozdrav, Jelena nmt-proi-logos2 JELENA BELIČEVIĆ | Senior Account Manager Dositejeva 21, 11000 Beograd Tel. +381 11 328 8527 | Mob. +381 66 881 8252 <http://www.newmediateam.rs/> www.newmediateam.rs <https://www.facebook.com/nmtpr/> NMT:NMT interno:POTPIS:Links:fb-icon.png <https://www.instagram.com/newmediateam.rs/?hl=en> NMT:NMT interno:POTPIS:Links:Insta-icon.png <https://twitter.com/newmediateam?lang=en> NMT:NMT interno:POTPIS:Links:Tw-icon.png <https://www.linkedin.com/company/2900250/> NMT:NMT interno:POTPIS:Links:Ln-icon.png _____ <https://www.avast.com/antivirus> Avast logo This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/antivirus> --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Isključenje struje u petak...
by PC PRESS 17 Jul '19

17 Jul '19

Na sajtu (https://www.epsdistribucija.rs/Dan_2_Iskljucenja.htm) za isključenja u petak piše: БЕОГРАД - Планирана искључења за датум: 2019-07-19 Општина Време Улице Палилула 08:30 - 14:00 БРАЋЕ ГРИМ: 28-32,17-21, ЧАРЛИЈА ЧАПЛИНА: ББ,2-20,24-30,34-42,1-3,7-37, ИЛИРСКА: 6,7-9, ЈАШЕ ПРОДАНОВИЋА: ББ,20-22,28-42,13-15,21-31, КОПЕРНИКОВА: 9-9, ЉУБОМИРА СТОЈАНОВИЋА: 12-14, МИТРОПОЛИТА ПЕТРА: 1-13, ОСМАНА ЂИКИЋА: 2-24, СМЕДЕРЕВСКА: 2-10,3-9, СТЕРИЈИНА: 10-14, СТОЈАНА НОВАКОВИЋА: 6-20,9-19, Палилула 08:30 - 15:00 Насеље БОРЧА: БАОШИЋКА: 2А,6-12,5-7, БРАТСТВА И ЈЕДИНСТВА: 1-9Б,13-17,21-27, ЦРНОРЕЧКА: 4-6,10-12,7-9, ДЕВИЧКА: 2-12,3,7-11, ГРГЕТЕЧКА: 2-10,16-18Ж,3А-9А,15,25, ЈЕЖЕВИЧКА: 4-12,1-3,7-11, КИКИНДСКА: 8,11А, КОСТЕ ХРИСТИЋА: 2-8,3-7, МИХАИЛА ШОЛОХОВА: 83А-91Б, ШИШАТОВАЧКА: 2-2Б,6-12А,20-20А,24,32,36,44,48-54,1-7А,15-19,179, ЗРЕЊАНИНСКИ ПУТ: 148-152Т,156-156Е,151-155, Насеље БОРЧА - Преток: КИКИНДСКА: 2-2Ж,1А-3В, Насеље Крњача: ЗРЕЊАНИНСКИ ПУТ: 152,153В, Палилула 11:00 - 15:00 Насеље БОРЧА: ЗРЕЊАНИНСКИ ПУТ: 1ББ, Насеље ДУНАВАЦ: ДУНАВАЦ: ББ,ББ,2-8,16-26,30Б,36,44,82,1-11,15-25,31, Насеље Крњача: ЗРЕЊАНИНСКИ ПУТ: 0,8А,22А,26-28,1ББ,23,27,31, Насеље ПРЕЛИВ: ПРЕЛИВ - СЕЛО: 34А-38А,42-44,48А-54,64-66А,88-90А,106-108,142,37,43,65-69А,83,87,105-105А,119-123,153, Pokušao sam da i usmeno saznam to isto preko kol centra (stalno su me upućivali na njega sa drugih telefona): Rečeno je da niko ne može dati drugačije mišljenje od onoga što piše na sajtu. Nekada je to vreme duže, a nekad i kraće. Glupo je što sam uopšte zvao. Al, bar sam ja ispao glup u društvu. Дистрибутивно подручје Београд Пријава кварова на мрежи 011 395 77 99 Пријава бесправне потрошње 0800 360 300 Кол-центар 011 395 7777 (опц. 6) Електронска пошта: info.centar(a)epsdistribucija.rs <mailto:info.centar@epsdistribucija.rs> ЕД Београд - центар 011 3616 706 ЕД Баново Брдо 011 3550 766 ЕД Земун 011 3160 212 ЕД Крњача 011 2711 039 ЕД Младеновац 011 8232 082 ЕД Обреновац 011 8721 007 Pozdrav, Nenad --- Ova e-pošta je provjerena na viruse Avast protuvirusnim programom. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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007
by Dejan Ristanovic 16 Jul '19

16 Jul '19

Zamislite, 007 će biti žena... i to crnkinja... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7244671/Thought-007-never-woman-bla ck-shes-James-Bond-hand-number-over.html Ali ne brinite, ipak ona neće biti James Bond. Pozdrav, Dejan

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FW: The Hackers Who Recovered NASA's Lost Lunar Photos | WIRED
by Dejan Ristanovic 16 Jul '19

16 Jul '19

https://www.wired.com/2014/04/lost-lunar-photos-recovered-by-great-feats-of… The Hackers Who Recovered NASA's Lost Lunar Photos Sitting incongruously among the hangars and laboratories of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley is the squat facade of an old McDonald’s. You won’t get a burger there, though–its cash registers and soft-serve machines have given way to old tape drives and modern computers run by a rogue team of hacker engineers who’ve rechristened the place McMoon’s. These self-described techno-archaeologists have been on a mission to recover and digitize forgotten photos taken in the ‘60s by a quintet of scuttled lunar satellites. The <http://www.moonviews.com> Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project has since 2007 brought some 2,000 pictures back from 1,500 analog data tapes. They contain the first high-resolution photographs ever taken from behind the lunar horizon, including the first photo of an earthrise (first slide above). Thanks to the technical savvy and DIY engineering of the team at LOIRP, it’s being seen at a higher resolution than was ever previously possible. “We’re reaching back to a capability that existed but couldn’t be touched back when it was created,” says Keith Cowing, co-lead and founding member at LOIRP. “It’s like having a DVD in 1966, you can’t play it. We had resolution of the earth of about a kilometer [per pixel]. This is an image taken a quarter of a fucking million miles away in 1966. The Beatles were warming up to play Shea Stadium at the moment it was being taken.” Between 1966 and ’67, five Lunar Orbiters snapped pictures onto 70mm film from about 30 miles above the moon. The satellites were sent mainly to scout potential landing sites for manned moon missions. Each satellite would point its dual lens Kodak camera at a target, snap a picture, then develop the photograph. High- and low-resolution photos were then scanned into strips called framelets using something akin to an old fax machine reader. The images were beamed in modulated signals to one of three receiving stations in Australia, Spain, or California, where the pictures–and <http://www.moonviews.com/2012/07/video-lunar-orbiter-techs-talk-about-crate…> collateral chatter from the NASA operators–were recorded straight to tape. After finishing their missions, the satellites were unceremoniously dashed against the moon rocks, clearing the way for Apollo. The brilliant and ballsy engineering was typical of NASA during its golden age, a time when it was also more closely linked to other government agencies with an interest in taking pictures from space. “These guys were operating right at the edge,” Cowing says with a reverence for these NASA engineers that's shared by his team. “There’s a certain spy program heritage to all this, but these guys went above that, because those spy satellites would send their images back. These didn’t. They couldn’t. They were in lunar orbit.” The photos were stored with remarkably high fidelity on the tapes, but at the time had to be copied from projection screens onto paper, sometimes at sizes so large that warehouses and even old churches were rented out to hang them up. The results were pretty grainy, but clear enough to identify landing sites and potential hazards. After the low-fi printing, the tapes were shoved into boxes and forgotten. They changed hands several times over the years, almost getting tossed out before landing in storage in Moorpark, California. Several abortive attempts were made to recover data from the tapes, which were well kept, but it wasn’t until 2005 that NASA engineer Keith Cowing and space entrepreneur Dennis Wingo were able to bring the materials and the technical know how together. When they learned through a <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet> Usenet group that former NASA employee Nancy Evans might have both the tapes and the super-rare Ampex FR-900 drives needed to read them, they jumped into action. They drove to Los Angeles, where the refrigerator-sized drives were being stored in a backyard shed surrounded by chickens. At the same time, they retrieved the tapes from a storage unit in nearby Moorpark, and things gradually began to take shape. Funding the project out of pocket at first, they were consumed with figuring out how to release the images trapped in the tapes. “We’re both Apollo babies, so the moon to us was something that’s unfinished business,” says Cowing. “These tapes were sealed for history by somebody who cared, and it was astonishing the condition they were in. So we started buying used parts on eBay, Radioshack–I was sitting at a black tie reception at one point buying something on my iPhone. We just buy and reassemble these things bit by bit.” The drives had to be rebuilt and in some cases completely re-engineered using instruction manuals or the advice of people who used to service them. The data they recovered then had to be demodulated and digitized, which added more layers of technical difficulties. The resulting framelets had to be individually reassembled in Photoshop. After kluging through countless engineering problems (try finding a chemical substitute for whale oil to lubricate tape heads), the LOIRP team was able to single out and reproduce the famous earthrise image. This proof of concept brought the first NASA funding in 2008, and the team recently completed processing the entire tape collection. “We’re the first people out of a generation or more to see this,” says Cowing. “No human eye had ever seen this. All they saw was something that had already been through one generation of copying. We’re seeing something one order of magnitude more precise right on the screen.” Since the '60s, a series of Earth and Moon imaging satellites have launched, including the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2009. Despite the advances in computing power and optics, Cowing says the terabytes of images recovered at LOIRP are often even more detailed than those taken by LRO, capable of being blown up to billboard size without losing resolution. “A lot of the images they’re taking today, our imagery from 1966 and ‘67 has sometimes greater resolution and greater dynamic range because of the way the pictures were taken. So sometimes you look into a shadow in a picture that LRO’s taken, and you don’t see any detail–with ours, you do.” Officially named Building 596, McMoon's flies a flag bearing the distinct Skunkworks skull and crossbones, signaling the team's hacker ethic. The seven or so people tinkering away inside maintain an open-source mentality about their work, making all images and their technological discoveries free to the public. They also have plans for a decommissioned Titan ICBM that's sitting outside (for students, of course). McMoon’s has grown into a highly specialized operation, stuffed with a melange of old and new technology now put to use in decoding various NASA and Library of Congress tapes that no one knows what to do with. With a built-in ability to handle hazardous chemicals, the old McDonald's made practical sense, but it also gave them a layer of distance to carry out their weird work. “I had a choice between the barbershop and this building–we didn’t really care what sort of building they gave us, we just didn’t want to pay for it,” Cowing says. “The surplus folks at NASA Ames where all the old computers and stuff go, they love us because we come over and make all the old stuff work. The safety guys come by and we usually either make them our friends or bark at them and they don’t come back.” The images gathered at LOIRP have been coerced into providing even more information than they were intended to. Their data have been used to correct figures from the time about Earth's arctic ice levels, and have helped identify an El Niño-type event in the '60s. All the images and the information gathered from them are being fed into the Planetary Data System, an official repository where mission data from LRO, Mars Observer, Climate Orbiter, and many others are documented. Started by the same Nancy Evans that provided the tape drives, the Planetary Data System didn’t exist when the Lunar Orbiter pictures were initially taken. The images and information that LOIRP has recovered will be submitted as the official record of the original sattelite mission. It’s a testament to the lasting work of the engineers who designed the orbiter missions, and the tenacity of the modern techno archaeologists who are bringing that work to full fruition. “Back then things were designed, even if they failed, to still do something. Today, most jet fighters would fall out of the sky if they didn’t have computers adjusting their surfaces and their pattern thousands of times a second. Back then they just had to engineer stuff elegantly so that it worked,” he says. “We feel that we’re completing the Lunar Orbiter 1 through 5 missions. They never formally submitted their stuff for the archives so we’re doing it.” All photos courtesy of LOIRP Sent from my iPad 2018

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FW: The Hackers Who Recovered NASA's Lost Lunar Photos | WIRED
by Dejan Ristanovic 16 Jul '19

16 Jul '19

https://www.wired.com/2014/04/lost-lunar-photos-recovered-by-great-feats-of… The Hackers Who Recovered NASA's Lost Lunar Photos Sitting incongruously among the hangars and laboratories of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley is the squat facade of an old McDonald’s. You won’t get a burger there, though–its cash registers and soft-serve machines have given way to old tape drives and modern computers run by a rogue team of hacker engineers who’ve rechristened the place McMoon’s. These self-described techno-archaeologists have been on a mission to recover and digitize forgotten photos taken in the ‘60s by a quintet of scuttled lunar satellites. The <http://www.moonviews.com> Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project has since 2007 brought some 2,000 pictures back from 1,500 analog data tapes. They contain the first high-resolution photographs ever taken from behind the lunar horizon, including the first photo of an earthrise (first slide above). Thanks to the technical savvy and DIY engineering of the team at LOIRP, it’s being seen at a higher resolution than was ever previously possible. “We’re reaching back to a capability that existed but couldn’t be touched back when it was created,” says Keith Cowing, co-lead and founding member at LOIRP. “It’s like having a DVD in 1966, you can’t play it. We had resolution of the earth of about a kilometer [per pixel]. This is an image taken a quarter of a fucking million miles away in 1966. The Beatles were warming up to play Shea Stadium at the moment it was being taken.” Between 1966 and ’67, five Lunar Orbiters snapped pictures onto 70mm film from about 30 miles above the moon. The satellites were sent mainly to scout potential landing sites for manned moon missions. Each satellite would point its dual lens Kodak camera at a target, snap a picture, then develop the photograph. High- and low-resolution photos were then scanned into strips called framelets using something akin to an old fax machine reader. The images were beamed in modulated signals to one of three receiving stations in Australia, Spain, or California, where the pictures–and <http://www.moonviews.com/2012/07/video-lunar-orbiter-techs-talk-about-crate…> collateral chatter from the NASA operators–were recorded straight to tape. After finishing their missions, the satellites were unceremoniously dashed against the moon rocks, clearing the way for Apollo. The brilliant and ballsy engineering was typical of NASA during its golden age, a time when it was also more closely linked to other government agencies with an interest in taking pictures from space. “These guys were operating right at the edge,” Cowing says with a reverence for these NASA engineers that's shared by his team. “There’s a certain spy program heritage to all this, but these guys went above that, because those spy satellites would send their images back. These didn’t. They couldn’t. They were in lunar orbit.” The photos were stored with remarkably high fidelity on the tapes, but at the time had to be copied from projection screens onto paper, sometimes at sizes so large that warehouses and even old churches were rented out to hang them up. The results were pretty grainy, but clear enough to identify landing sites and potential hazards. After the low-fi printing, the tapes were shoved into boxes and forgotten. They changed hands several times over the years, almost getting tossed out before landing in storage in Moorpark, California. Several abortive attempts were made to recover data from the tapes, which were well kept, but it wasn’t until 2005 that NASA engineer Keith Cowing and space entrepreneur Dennis Wingo were able to bring the materials and the technical know how together. When they learned through a <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet> Usenet group that former NASA employee Nancy Evans might have both the tapes and the super-rare Ampex FR-900 drives needed to read them, they jumped into action. They drove to Los Angeles, where the refrigerator-sized drives were being stored in a backyard shed surrounded by chickens. At the same time, they retrieved the tapes from a storage unit in nearby Moorpark, and things gradually began to take shape. Funding the project out of pocket at first, they were consumed with figuring out how to release the images trapped in the tapes. “We’re both Apollo babies, so the moon to us was something that’s unfinished business,” says Cowing. “These tapes were sealed for history by somebody who cared, and it was astonishing the condition they were in. So we started buying used parts on eBay, Radioshack–I was sitting at a black tie reception at one point buying something on my iPhone. We just buy and reassemble these things bit by bit.” The drives had to be rebuilt and in some cases completely re-engineered using instruction manuals or the advice of people who used to service them. The data they recovered then had to be demodulated and digitized, which added more layers of technical difficulties. The resulting framelets had to be individually reassembled in Photoshop. After kluging through countless engineering problems (try finding a chemical substitute for whale oil to lubricate tape heads), the LOIRP team was able to single out and reproduce the famous earthrise image. This proof of concept brought the first NASA funding in 2008, and the team recently completed processing the entire tape collection. “We’re the first people out of a generation or more to see this,” says Cowing. “No human eye had ever seen this. All they saw was something that had already been through one generation of copying. We’re seeing something one order of magnitude more precise right on the screen.” Since the '60s, a series of Earth and Moon imaging satellites have launched, including the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2009. Despite the advances in computing power and optics, Cowing says the terabytes of images recovered at LOIRP are often even more detailed than those taken by LRO, capable of being blown up to billboard size without losing resolution. “A lot of the images they’re taking today, our imagery from 1966 and ‘67 has sometimes greater resolution and greater dynamic range because of the way the pictures were taken. So sometimes you look into a shadow in a picture that LRO’s taken, and you don’t see any detail–with ours, you do.” Officially named Building 596, McMoon's flies a flag bearing the distinct Skunkworks skull and crossbones, signaling the team's hacker ethic. The seven or so people tinkering away inside maintain an open-source mentality about their work, making all images and their technological discoveries free to the public. They also have plans for a decommissioned Titan ICBM that's sitting outside (for students, of course). McMoon’s has grown into a highly specialized operation, stuffed with a melange of old and new technology now put to use in decoding various NASA and Library of Congress tapes that no one knows what to do with. With a built-in ability to handle hazardous chemicals, the old McDonald's made practical sense, but it also gave them a layer of distance to carry out their weird work. “I had a choice between the barbershop and this building–we didn’t really care what sort of building they gave us, we just didn’t want to pay for it,” Cowing says. “The surplus folks at NASA Ames where all the old computers and stuff go, they love us because we come over and make all the old stuff work. The safety guys come by and we usually either make them our friends or bark at them and they don’t come back.” The images gathered at LOIRP have been coerced into providing even more information than they were intended to. Their data have been used to correct figures from the time about Earth's arctic ice levels, and have helped identify an El Niño-type event in the '60s. All the images and the information gathered from them are being fed into the Planetary Data System, an official repository where mission data from LRO, Mars Observer, Climate Orbiter, and many others are documented. Started by the same Nancy Evans that provided the tape drives, the Planetary Data System didn’t exist when the Lunar Orbiter pictures were initially taken. The images and information that LOIRP has recovered will be submitted as the official record of the original sattelite mission. It’s a testament to the lasting work of the engineers who designed the orbiter missions, and the tenacity of the modern techno archaeologists who are bringing that work to full fruition. “Back then things were designed, even if they failed, to still do something. Today, most jet fighters would fall out of the sky if they didn’t have computers adjusting their surfaces and their pattern thousands of times a second. Back then they just had to engineer stuff elegantly so that it worked,” he says. “We feel that we’re completing the Lunar Orbiter 1 through 5 missions. They never formally submitted their stuff for the archives so we’re doing it.” All photos courtesy of LOIRP Sent from my iPad 2018

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