Moon landing tapes have gone missing (Raw Story)

[Starfury]

Arrrrrrrgh!!! Is nothing sacred anymore???? :mad:

Search is on for historic TV footage of mankind's first landing on the Moon
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
Published: 13 August 2006

Houston, we have a problem. There is probably no artefact in the history of space exploration more precious than the first television images of the Moon captured by Neil Armstrong and his fellow astronauts as they disembarked from their lunar module in July 1969.

Unfortunately, the magnetic tapes of those images have gone missing. Worse still, they appear to have been missing for at least 30 years - and nobody, until now, even noticed.

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The world is familiar with the fuzzy, grainy footage of the lunar landscape shown on television screens back in 1969, and repeated many times since. But that is not what the US astronauts shot - it was a low-quality reproduction achieved by pointing a television camera at the monitor beaming back the original images from the lunar mission to tracking stations in California and Australia.

The high-quality originals were preserved on telemetry tape, but were never actually broadcast. Instead, they were sent from Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland to the nearby US National Archives and Records Administration (Nara). Sometime in the mid-1970s, Goddard reclaimed the tapes, part of a hoard of more than 2,600 tapes that it wanted for "permanent retention". And then they vanished into the bureaucratic ether.

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Article from The Independent via Raw Story:
http://rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.independent.co.uk%2Fworld%2Famericas%2Farticle1218885.ece

[CJCRANE]

1. Didn't realise

the original footage was never broadcast...

and no, I don't have any conspiracy theories on this one!

[HereSince1628]

5. What? We gotta have conspiracy theories and tin-foil on this one...

So...

1. This is PROOF that the lunar landing never took place. A high quality video would show it was a simulation done in a hanger in New Mexico...

2. This is PROOF that the original lander captured photographs of Aliens on the moon standing in awelcoming line...

3. My cousin's girlfriend's mother's lover is ex-NASA security and HE says this tape was given to Sun Yong Moon at his Coronation to King of the World as a present from the American People.

4. On edit...My dumb sister's husband has just admitted turning it in to Blockbuster by mistake along with 2001: A Space Odessy.

[CJCRANE]

6. Like it

:rofl:

but where's the link to the Grassy Knoll and BFEE?

;)

[w4rma]

2. Somebody made *a lot* of money stealing and selling those tapes.

But I wonder *why* someone would want to buy them? If the tapes were available to the public then with current technology even better copies than the originals could be made.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. They had to get rid of them - a boom mike appeared in one shot...

...and a stage hand carrying a cup of coffee can be seen walking behind the LEM. Jeez, they could've just edited that shit out without destroying the ENTIRE set of tapes!:rofl:;)

[regnaD kciN]

7. You can't blame them...

After all, back then, they didn't have the computer technology needed to do proper retouching of video images, like we have today.

:tinfoilhat:

[Cobalt-60]

4. Magnetic Tapes

After thirty years the information on those tapes may be gone.
Our best sources are the film records made from those transmissions and on the spot by the astronauts.

[maddezmom]

8. locking

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