More detail from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/29 ... ing_tapes/]The Register: Apparently the Australia-based ground station that recorded the tapes directly from the inbound signal thought they'd shipped them to NASA, but instead they got "filed" with a bunch of other, lower-priority, stuff that went into storage.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.