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From 2014 but still worth reading.

A group of rebellious scientists achieved what NASA thought was impossible inside, of all places, an abandoned McDonald's. Cobbling together decades-old spy technology and extinct videotape, the scientists of "McMoon" breathed new life into photos that were once hailed as the "pictures of the century."

Alt source: https://www.wired.com/2014/04/lost-lunar-photos-recovered-by-great-feats-of-hackerdom-developed-at-a-mcdonalds/

From 2014 but still worth reading. >A group of rebellious scientists achieved what NASA thought was impossible inside, of all places, an abandoned McDonald's. Cobbling together decades-old spy technology and extinct videotape, the scientists of "McMoon" breathed new life into photos that were once hailed as the "pictures of the century." Alt source: https://www.wired.com/2014/04/lost-lunar-photos-recovered-by-great-feats-of-hackerdom-developed-at-a-mcdonalds/

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Don't underestimate engineers that really-really want to do something.

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They can want all they like. I won’t ever be convinced the “space race” was anything more than a Cold War PR stunt in the same vein as the Olympics.