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Re:NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles... by iJohnDoe on Monday November 21, 2022 @01:10PM (#33695783)
Thanks for the information. Very helpful.

My conspiracy side thinks NASA wants the opportunity to review the high resolution photos and video before they are revealed to the public.

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Re:NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles... by anogrebattle on Monday November 21, 2022 @01:39PM (#33696186)
To be fair, NASA _is_ probably reviewing the high res imagery before releasing it, but for a much more mundane reason than any conspiracy theory. A lot of contractors worked on Orion. NASA is responsible for not accidentally leaking any trade secrets that may be visible in imagery.
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Re:NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles... by mcculley on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:00PM (#33697854)
If the fundamental delay to NASA releasing images is leak of proprietary data, that is a pretty damning critique for the the continued existence of NASA as a public agency.
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Re:NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles... by s1artibartfast on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @11:03AM (#33707190)
Why? Public Agencies work with private parties and individuals all the time. This brings constraints on what they can do with information.
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Re:NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles... by mcculley on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:27PM (#33709101)
There is an enormous spectrum between "we cannot release some proprietary data from COTS components" and "we cannot release images without approval from our vendors".

(Not that I am convinced that this is the real reason why NASA is not releasing images quickly.)

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Re:NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles... by s1artibartfast on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @08:59PM (#33714179)
Waiting for approval from vendors is a big difference from NASA reviewing the photos themselves, which was the original claim
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Re:NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles... by mcculley on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @11:21AM (#33721133)
I would find such a delay unacceptable for a public agency. Anything visible in the photos should be releasable.
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Re:NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles... by mindcrime on Monday November 21, 2022 @01:32PM (#33696087)
Okay, boss, this LTX-71 concealable mike is part of the same system that NASA used when they faked the Apollo Moon landings. They had the astronauts broadcast around the world from a sound stage at Norton Air Force Base in San Bernadino, California. So it worked for them, shouldn't give us too many problems.
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Re:NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles... by runesofdoom on Monday November 21, 2022 @01:42PM (#33696215)
That's not true. Everyone knows that Coppola forced them to shoot on-site.
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Re:NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles... by SkyMarshal on Monday November 21, 2022 @02:42PM (#33696929)
Coppola: If I'm going to make a fake moon landing video it's going to be the best damn one ever created. We're shooting on site, and that's final!
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Re:NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles... by bombcar on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:08PM (#33697963)
I believe someone did the math and supposedly showed that it would have been cheaper to actually land on the moon than fake it with what they had available at the time.
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Re:NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles... by actionfromafar on Monday November 21, 2022 @07:31PM (#33700225)
It used to be Kubrick
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Re:NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles... by WalterBright on Monday November 21, 2022 @01:26PM (#33696016)
They have to paint out by hand the wires that enable the astronauts to walk like they're in low gravity. This takes time.
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Re:NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles... by UnpossibleJim on Monday November 21, 2022 @02:28PM (#33696771)
Automation is their friend. Just "hot pink" those wires and batch the process =P
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Re:NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles... by themadturk on Monday November 21, 2022 @01:58PM (#33696389)
"That's no moon. That's the set Stanley Kubrick built to film the fake moon landings."
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Re:NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles... by el_toast on Monday November 21, 2022 @02:08PM (#33696493)
No conspiracy or funniness to be had. ITAR is the main limiting factor to releasing images/videos at this point. Next is the download rate and the high res images are not high priority since operations can be run using lower resolution. We all need to remember mission success is the highest priority. We will get the good stuff we want, just not immediately.
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Re:NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles... by c_o_n_v_e_x on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:41AM (#33702437)
>ITAR is the main limiting factor to releasing images/videos at this point.

Pictures of the moon fall under ITAR?

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Re:NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles... by lowbloodsugar on Monday November 21, 2022 @04:20PM (#33698088)
Gotta edit out the decepticons.
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