Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/

52•Bluestein•8mo ago

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NaOH•8mo ago

Previous discussions:

Apollo Lunar Surface Journal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41012854 - July 2024 (10 comments)

Lunar Surface Journal – One Small Step, Transcript and Commentary - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18873253 - Jan 2019 (1 comment)

techas•8mo ago

>You may email the editors concerning typos, factual errors, or with general comments at: apollolunarsurfacejournal@gmail.com

Why nasa use gmail?

sandworm101•8mo ago

Better spam filters. Easier to block all the crazy people. Easier to hand over basic filtering to unpaid interns who dont yet have government logins/email accounts.

AStonesThrow•8mo ago

They may all be unpaid for this; copyright belongs to one man rather than being a work of the US government. It looks like a project from their spare time and retirement.

sandworm101•8mo ago

With a nasa.gov domain, it is most likely a former nasa employee.

AStonesThrow•8mo ago

There is this thing that webmasters can do called "hosting" where they give access to other people to store and distribute their work.

This is a collaboration and international labor of love, with people hailing from Australia, England, and Canada. Go visit nasa.gov at top-level and see how the design changes, and the NASA logos are used.

These pages carry the Apollo insignias, and "last modified: November 2017".

bfeist•8mo ago

Hello. NASA person and contributor to the ALSJ here. This is a volunteer effort that is one of the oldest websites on the internet (and most awesome). The original transcripts are public domain, but the commentary here is what’s under some copyright. That said, it’s online for the greater good. I hope you enjoy it.

nancyminusone•8mo ago

>The corrected transcript, commentary, and other text incorporated in the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal is protected by copyright.

If this is a government document, how is it not public domain? If it's not a government document, why is it hosted on a .gov?

thejarren•8mo ago

This is a fan edited compilation. The original raw source docs are public domain, but this is a 3rd party website.

dylan604•8mo ago

I like the old skool anti-spam bot filter attempt of making it an image instead of text.

dotancohen•8mo ago

I'll see your email-address-as-image and raise you CP-1251 codepoints incorrectly rendered as UTF-8:

https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/sgarber.html

Now _that's_ a blast from the past!

Hard_Space•8mo ago

Wow, I haven't seen a mapped GIF menu in many years. https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/main.html

Bluestein•8mo ago

Imagemaps FTW. Well spotted!

vertnerd•8mo ago

I discovered this site about 20 years ago, and it appears to be as good as ever. The volume of detailed documentation here is all you need to dispel fantasies about a moon landing hoax.

anogrebattle•8mo ago

If you want to enjoy more Apollo history, definitely visit https://apolloinrealtime.org/

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