11 Jun
2005
11 Jun
'05
9:28 p.m.
From: "William Donzelli" <aw288 at osfn.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 11:20 PM
I was at RCS this afternoon, and after talking to Mike
about the whole
Pioneer 10 and 11 tape nonsense, we did a little digging:
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1972-012A&ds=*
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1973-019A&ds=*
Well, well, well...it looks like every bit of Pioneer 10 and 11 has been
saved already, and can be accessed thru the proper channels (on
tape, but apparently they will burn a CDROM on request).
Every other spacecraft, as well.
It is time to lay this urban legend about rotting NASA tapes to rest.
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org
I'd be willing to bet they'll take money to recover the data anyway :)
Randy
www.s100-manuals.com