Latest Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project Stories

The old moon has a fresh look, after NASA released a newly restored 42-year-old image of Earth on Thursday. Mankind's first up-close photos of the lunar landscape have been rescued from four decades of dusty storage, and they've been restored to rival anything taken by modern cameras. In 1966, the Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft took the iconic photograph of Earth rising above the lunar surface. NASA used refurbished machinery and modern digital technology, and produced the image at a much higher...