Posted on 07/16/2009 8:45:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The original recordings of the first humans landing on the moon 40 years ago were erased and re-used, but newly restored copies of the original broadcast look even better, NASA officials said on Thursday.
NASA released the first glimpses of a complete digital make-over of the original landing footage that clarifies the blurry and grainy images of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the surface of the moon.
The full set of recordings, being cleaned up by Burbank, California-based Lowry Digital, will be released in September. The preview is available at www.nasa.gov.
NASA admitted in 2006 that no one could find the original video recordings of the July 20, 1969, landing.
Since then, Richard Nafzger, an engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, who oversaw television processing at the ground-tracking sites during the Apollo 11 mission, has been looking for them.
The good news is he found where they went. The bad news is they were part of a batch of 200,000 tapes that were degaussed -- magnetically erased -- and re-used to save money.
"The goal was live TV," Nafzger told a news conference.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
We really got a problem Houston.
ERASED?
Wonder what was on them that had to go?
What, there was a rerun of M*A*S*H on or what?
Ya can’t make this stuff up.
You’ve got to be kidding me!
SOP - they reused the tapes, copies were made
nothing to see here... literally.
Lost in space!
Somebody was going to have to work the night shift at NASA and there wasn’t any other tape available to record the night’s episode of “Gunsmoke”.
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There they are! Right next to the box with Obama's birth certificate . . . |
Nothing to see here,move along,lost in space.
What kind of BS is that
If there was ever a post for Art Bell to be pinged to, that was it...
INCREDIBLE!... NASA of all organizations... so sloppy... and of course, there is NO ONE RESPONSIBLE... no one gets blamed or fired...
How can you fire someone? Don’t you think that 40 years ago that everyone who worked then has either died or retired?
Will the stars show up on the version
Seriously?
Proof of time travel. Artifacts that would otherwise be lost in The Singularity preserved...
VCRs had not yet been invented. :-)
Hang on here. It looks to me like the very first original stuff that made it to tape got erased, but that they made at least one copy of it before it got erased, and now they’ve digitally enhanced that copy.
I need to contact Comrade Kirk and Comrade Obama before I can release information.It may take a year or 2.Sorry,Comrade TT.
If you think that’s bad, you should read the story of what actually happened to the 1890 Federal Census.
Every generation has its share of inept government employees.
Now the moonbats can say the tapes are faked.
Folks, these people will soon be running our healthcare. Get used to it.
‘Sorry, sir, but we needed some extra space on the computer and we erased your medical file.’
They need to be stopped.
Did you read about how we all watched it as kids?
It was sent to Australia via radio, played on a big screen, filmed live (FROM THE SCREEN) on TV, rebroadcast to the US, played on a big screen, and played on live TV by a bunch of cameras aimed at the screen in Houston.
No compatable formats for broadcasts anywhere in the process.
So then the Australians said, well, that was fun, and junked the original tapes.
Government health care is going to be SO MUCH FUN.
LOL.
And people want this Gov’t to be in charge of their healthcare.
Sheesh.
I agree,these people can’t run a hot dog stand.
“VCRs had not yet been invented. :-)”
Ah but the tape wasn’t always in a cassette:
“Experimentation with magnetic tape recording of video signals began just post World-War II. Prototype machines were built in the early 1950s. The first practical, commercial broadcast quality video recorder was released by Ampex in 1956.”
“World’s First Broadcast via Videotape — CBS airing of the Douglas Edward and the News program on November 30, 1956, from New York. CBS Television City in Hollywood replayed the broadcast three hours after it was received on the West Coast.”
http://www.tvhistory.tv/VCR%20History.htm
You meant to tell there is an excuse for something like this?.. The most talented people in the world probably and no one had the common sense of making sure, copies of all the tapes and data were made and place in a secure place for posterity?
So, you believe, NASA did not notice this little snafu until NOW? :) and if they did not, WHY?...
Sorry, they deserve to look stupid and careless, period
The Coast-to-Coast guy is probably already setting up wack-job Richard Hoagland for a July 20 all-night special.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_C._Hoagland
You said — Proof of time travel. Artifacts that would otherwise be lost in The Singularity preserved...
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Ummm..., the Temporal Accord has been violated. This is hugh and series... :-)
Here we go. This is like pouring gas onto the fire for those who believe the moon landing a hoax.
Please don’t ask me. I was in recruit training at Parris Island S.C. We were never told about it. Only later, after graduating, did we learn about Armstrong walking on the moon. And all the news clips I saw later came from Cronkite reports.
To erase the moon vids is inexcusable. How could they? These vids were of the most critical value in our lifetime. To have erased them defies the logic of the space time continuum. It’s an error of magnitudinal proportion. It’s a crime against humanity.
To save a few bucks? PULEAZE!
NASA was a pretty sharp operation back then, far better than the clown circus we have going on now. This story has a little smell to it.
One left-wing luddite group, the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space (known to detractors as Gnaw’n’pis), actually spells out that one its reasons for opposing private space development is that private space operations could eventually be literally beyond the reach of government regulators.
Calm down, it's a joke!
Only if the people in the violated timeline find out...
*bristling* I'll have you know my mother worked on that census...
loosing your med file would be positive not negative
Sorry..., have to get back to you... seem to find myself in some kind of time loop... keep typing the same message over and over again... :-)
And these people want to run your healthcare.
Was there a Utah speed limit sign in one? /s
Nah. They needed to make a tape on the dangers of venereal disease for the troops in Vietnam.
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