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The Hackers Who Recovered NASA's Lost Lunar Photos

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Sitting incongruously among the hangars and laboratories of NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley is the squat facade of an old McDonald's. You won't get a burger there, though-its cash registers and soft-serve machines have given way to old tape drives and modern computers run by a rogue team of hacker engineers who've rechristened the place McMoon's. These self-described techno-archaeologists have been on a mission to recover and digitize forgotten photos taken in the ‘60s by a quintet of scuttled lunar satellites.

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rnturn ·
I did a fair amount of work with one of the divisions at ARC back in the '80s and never ran across a McDonald's while I was on-site. (The food in the NASA cafeteria's was excellent so why go to McDonald's in the first place?) Maybe it was already gone by then or maybe it was tucked away in a corner of the facility that I never got to. Does anyone know just where it was located on the base?
Bob_Robertson ·
Rnturn, I, also, worked at ARC. It is possible the McDonald's is over on the Navy side of the installation, which was still Navy when I worked there and therefore somewhat less accessible than the NASA side.

Since its decommissioning, the Navy side of Moffet Field has been "privatized" for fashionable boutique IT start-ups and "maker-space" incubators. This kind of thing would fit in perfectly.

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