{"id":361,"date":"2012-05-05T19:25:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T19:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.234.222.17\/2012\/05\/05\/photos_of_the_ampex_fr-900_and_ar-550_tape_drive_design_team\/"},"modified":"2012-05-05T19:25:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T19:25:51","slug":"photos_of_the_ampex_fr-900_and_ar-550_tape_drive_design_team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"Photos of the Ampex FR-900 and AR-550 Tape Drive Design Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/loirp\/Ampex.FR950.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n<\/div>\n<p>The Ampex FR-900 and AR-550 design teams.  The FR-900 tape drives are the large units in the background and were used to record images sent back by the Lunar Orbiter missions. We have two refurbished FR-900s at the LOIRP at McMoons at NASA Ames Research Center. The smaller tape drive in front, the AR-550 is the flight version of the FR-900 and was flown aboard Skylab.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/loirp\/Ampex.AR550.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n<\/div>\n<p>The Ampex AR-550 design team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ampex FR-900 and AR-550 design teams. The FR-900 tape drives are the large units in the background and were used to record images sent back by the Lunar Orbiter missions. We have two refurbished FR-900s at the LOIRP at McMoons at NASA Ames Research Center. The smaller tape drive in front, the AR-550 is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=361\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photos of the Ampex FR-900 and AR-550 Tape Drive Design Team&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,38,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loirp","category-tapes-and-drives","category-technoarchaeology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}