In 2008, a team of researchers transformed a vacant fast-food restaurant near NASA's Ames Research Center into an unlikely archive laboratory, recovering lunar photographs from the 1960s that had been locked inside magnetic tapes no modern machine could read. The project, affectionately called McMoon's, reminds us that knowledge is not merely what we record, but whether we preserve the means to remember it. Across the gap of fifty years, human foresight — in the form of a researcher who kept both the tapes and the machines — made the difference between a living archive and a silent one.