Rescue of data from Pioneer 10 & 11 tapes FINAL WORD

[William Donzelli]

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