home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!tcsi.com!iat.holonet.net!news.cerf.net!usc!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!fnal.fnal.gov!higgins
- From: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Smithsonian videodisks (was Re: Apollo Program photos)
- Date: 26 Jan 93 13:23:03 -0600
- Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Lines: 72
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.132303.1@fnalf.fnal.gov>
- References: <11748.409.uupcb@the-matrix.com> <19930126133842.Roger.Wilfong@umich.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: fnalf.fnal.gov
-
- In article <19930126133842.Roger.Wilfong@umich.edu>, Roger.Wilfong@umich.edu (Roger Wilfong) writes:
- > In Article <11748.409.uupcb@the-matrix.com> "george.gassaway@the-matrix.com (George Gassaway) " says:
- >> I am currently researching Apollo-7 for the purposes of creating and
- >> documenting detailed drawings of the Saturn-IB launch vehicle.
- > I too am researching Apollo with similar intentions; however, my interest is
- > in SA-6 and SA-7 (Saturn I, Block 2). I too would be interested in the disc
- > to which George refers.
-
- Oh, well, if there are *two* of you guys out there, there may well be
- more, so I shall post this old 1989 article instead of simply mailing
- it to Roger and George...
-
- ========
- I just received a catalog of aviation history books from the Smithsonian
- Institution Press. It includes six videodiscs full of stills at fifty-five
- bucks apiece. I don't have a player, but maybe some readers will be
- interested.
-
- "The National Air and Space Museum is reproducing its entire photo archives aon
- videodiscs. Ten discs are currently planned...[these laser NTSC 525-line
- discs] can be played on all laser videodisc players."
- Two of the six discs are relevant to students of spaceflight. Quoting from
- the catalog:
- ============================================================================
-
- Archival Videodisc 6
-
- The Lunar Missions Imagery Disc documents the history of manned and unmanned
- lunar missions with over 70,000 images. The unmanned Ranger, Surveyor, and
- Lunar Orbiter missions are represented with a selection of over 6,000
- black-and-white images on side A, followed by 23,000 color and black-and-white
- images taken by the Apollo astronauts. Because many of these images were shot
- in rapid sequence, they provide an "animated" re-creation of many aspects of
- the Apollo missions when played in an auto forward mode. Each image is
- referenced with an index.
-
- Also on Side A are chronologies of American and Soviet lunar missions,
- photodocumentaries of lunar explorations, and biographies of the Apollo
- astronauts. Details of lunar mapping are provided as a cross reference to the
- Apollo photographs.
-
- Side B stores roughly 47,000 frames of Apollo panoramic photography from Apollo
- 15, 16, and 17. A mapping index is provided for Side B.
- ISBN: 0-84747-939-5S $55.00 (Smithsonian members $44.00)
-
- Archival Videodisc 5
- [NASA history, U.S. space program, Shuttle Hasselblad photography from STS-1 to
- STS-61C.] Index included.
- ISBN: 0-84747-936-0S $55.00 (Smithsonian members $44.00)
- ======================================================================
- The other discs are of interest to aviation buffs:
- #1 Aircraft, alphabetical by manufacturer (100,000 images)
- #2 More aircraft, personalities, events
- #3 USA(A)F through 1954, including 50,000 WWII images
- #4 USAF pre-1954, Korea, art collection (Single-sided, 50,000 images)
-
- If you're interested, contact:
- Smithsonian Institution Press
- Dept. 900
- Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17294-0900
- (717)794-2148
-
- /// Bill Higgins
- E ///
- |8D:O: occc))))<)) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- E ///
- /// Bitnet: HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET
-
- Bumper sticker seen on a Soyuz: SPAN/Hepnet/Physnet: 43011::HIGGINS
-
- DON'T LAUGH-- IT'S PAID FOR Internet: HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV
-
-