3 Hours Left to Support an Amazing Technoarcheology Project
Andrew Hendriks
Here’s an
amazing piece of space exploration history that needs preserving.
Blurb from the project
Hi I am Dennis Wingo and I am the
founder of the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP). I have been
working on images from the Moon for over 25 years. I ran upon the
opportunity to recover the images from the original tapes of the Lunar Orbiter
program quite by accident several years ago. I had known about the
tapes but thought that they were lost to history. To me this project is
an opportunity for us to digitize and preserve a major part of our aerospace
history and provide these images for science and the public.
This effort has spawned a new word technoarcheology, (literally the
archeology of technology) and a new way of looking at our past.
Think for a moment how much better off our world would be today if some
of the ancient engineering marvels of the past like the Great Pyramid of Egypt,
the formula for concrete from the Roman empire, and the millions of books from
the great library at Alexandria had not been lost? How much farther would
we be along the road of civilization? How many mistakes could we have
avoided if we had the wisdom of the ancients to consult?
By preserving our technical past as we are with the LOIRP project we help to
provide a snapshot in time of our nearest celestial neighbor in a way that can
never be repeated. This has also been a way to bring our older retired
engineers together with young, eager science and engineering students to
provide a mentoring effect that has been so lacking in our culture of late.
It is the continuity between the generations that is as important as
understanding our deep past that will allow us to move forward into the future.
Donate a little cash and save an amazing piece of history!
It’s also a
kickstarter, so there are cool incentive gifts for donating. 3 hours left!
http://www.rockethub.com/projects/14882-lunar-orbiter-image-recovery-project
Cheers,
- Andrew Hendriks