Rescue of data from Pioneer 10 & 11 tapes FINAL WORD

[Randy McLaughlin]

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
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