How a McDonald's building is being used to save Neglected NASA Moon Earth images

In the middle of the Mt. View NASA campus, an unseemly McDonald’s building sits alone on its lot, dwarfed by the massive skeleton of Hangar One looming behind it. It still bears the yellow and brown colors, drive up window, and slightly flipped edge rooftop of the iconic food chain. But this McDonald’s building does not dispense golden, crispy French fries or Quarter Pounders; it’s the unsuspecting nerve center of one of the most significant data recovery projects in moon landing history.

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Before the Eagle could land and Neil Armstrong uttered his famous words about giant leaps for mankind, NASA had to conduct a vital series of unmanned lunar orbital missions to determine exactly where the astronauts could safely land on the moon. Despite the imperative nature of the project, the images were almost destroyed two decades later were it not for the tenacity and foresight of a handful of self-described “techno-archaeologists.”

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Lunar Orbiter missions, this exhibit will tell the story of how a rag-tag band of dedicated scientists, former NASA employees, and a couple of twelve-year-old interns saved these irreplaceable pieces of space history. This exhibit will take the visitor on an extraordinary journey from a dilapidated storage space to a veterinarian’s garage in central California, and finally to an abandoned McDonald’s building on the Moffett NASA campus where archival space history is still being made today.

NUMU| New Museum Los Gatos is proud to collaborate with the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) and NASA on the McMoon exhibit set to open Friday, September 23rd 2016.

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