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Since the tapes were damaged by "moderate to severe mould," it likely would have taken a non insignificant amount of work to convert them to digital format. NAS
by bvod 9y ago
Since the tapes were damaged by "moderate to severe mould," it likely would have taken a non insignificant amount of work to convert them to digital format. NASA doesn't want to waste it's engineers' time - this seems more like work for a historical society or organization
- bleair 9y agoThink about how much budget and time and resource and nasa-career-path risk it would take for a manager at Nasa to ask for taking on a restoration project like this. Not going to happen.
- infogulch 9y agoWhy would it have to be NASA? I feel like would be a lot of NASA / space historian people that would be interested to try to restore them without charge.