{"id":652,"date":"2013-11-13T18:14:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T18:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.234.222.17\/2013\/11\/13\/madrid_ground_station_crew_says_hello_after_46_years\/"},"modified":"2013-11-13T18:14:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T18:14:49","slug":"madrid_ground_station_crew_says_hello_after_46_years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Madrid Ground Station Crew Says Hello After 46 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/IMAG0817.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n<\/div>\n<p><P><br \/>\nDennis Wingo just discovered a message  written inside one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Madrid_Deep_Space_Communication_Complex\">Madrid ground station<\/a> Lunar Orbiter 5 tapes today &#8211; tape M5-87 &#8211; recorded on day 233 of 1967 (21 August).  It is blurred with time but says <i>&#8220;Greetings from DSS-62 (indecipherable) in  SPAIN (indecipherable)&#8221;<\/i>  DSS stands for &#8220;Deep Space Station&#8221;.  Some people put messages in a bottle and throw the bottle into the ocean. These guys used a tape container lid to send us this message. No one has opened this container since 1967.<br \/>\nThe DSS 62 antenna was on a polar mount and was 85 feet across. It operated from 27 December 1966 to 30 November 1981. DSN&#8217;s Deep Space History <a href=\"http:\/\/deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov\/dsn\/history\/dsn31.html\">webpage<\/a> notes <i>&#8220;After NASA declared the station surplus to its operational needs in 1983, it was donated to the Spanish government&#8221;<\/i>.<br \/>\nThis photo posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.am.ub.edu\/~robert\/Pic_cebr.html\">Robert Estalella<\/a> shows several FR-1400 tape drives (but not the FR-900 drives).<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LOIRP\/ceb15.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n<\/div>\n<p><P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Wingo just discovered a message written inside one of the Madrid ground station Lunar Orbiter 5 tapes today &#8211; tape M5-87 &#8211; recorded on day 233 of 1967 (21 August). It is blurred with time but says &#8220;Greetings from DSS-62 (indecipherable) in SPAIN (indecipherable)&#8221; DSS stands for &#8220;Deep Space Station&#8221;. Some people put messages &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=652\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Madrid Ground Station Crew Says Hello After 46 Years&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,4,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ground-stations","category-history","category-madrid-dss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","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=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}