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Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits
Reuters ^
| Thu Jul 16, 2009
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 ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: apollo11; artbell; moonlanding; nasa; videotape
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To: nickcarraway
We really got a problem Houston.
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:47:56 PM PDT
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taxtruth
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:48:27 PM PDT
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taxtruth
To: nickcarraway
Wonder what was on them that had to go?
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:48:31 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
To: nickcarraway
This oughtta give the Tin Foil Hat business a boost...
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:49:23 PM PDT
by
jessduntno
(You quit when you're in over your head. You resign when there isn't enough challenge.)
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To: nickcarraway
Ya can’t make this stuff up.
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:50:14 PM PDT
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taxtruth
To: nickcarraway
You’ve got to be kidding me!
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:51:46 PM PDT
by
Shadow44
To: nickcarraway
SOP - they reused the tapes, copies were made
nothing to see here... literally.
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:51:58 PM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: nickcarraway
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07/16/2009 8:52:54 PM PDT
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taxtruth
To: nickcarraway
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”.
To: nickcarraway
>The original recordings of the first humans landing on the moon 40 years ago were erased
 |
There they are! Right next
to the box with Obama's
birth certificate . . .
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To: nickcarraway
Nothing to see here,move along,lost in space.
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:54:05 PM PDT
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taxtruth
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:55:35 PM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:57:08 PM PDT
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
To: editor-surveyor; Art Bell
Wonder what was on them that had to go? If there was ever a post for Art Bell to be pinged to, that was it...
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:57:17 PM PDT
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null and void
(We are now in day 177 of our national holiday from reality.)
To: All
INCREDIBLE!... NASA of all organizations... so sloppy... and of course, there is NO ONE RESPONSIBLE... no one gets blamed or fired...
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07/16/2009 8:57:38 PM PDT
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ElPatriota
(The SILENCE of the Catholic Church on the war on family-values is *** DEAFENING ***)
To: ElPatriota
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?
To: nickcarraway
They had to erase the old tapes and digitally restore new ones where the astronauts were congratulated by President Nixon Obama on their great achievement.
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posted on
07/16/2009 8:59:37 PM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(YES WE CAN have a Depression.)
To: taxtruth
Will the stars show up on the version
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07/16/2009 9:00:10 PM PDT
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Flavius
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