Apollo 11 tapes found

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There were some tinfoil happy tree friends on this website that believed the Apollo 11 moon landings were faked. Part of their conspiracy came the missing Apollo 11 moon landing HD SSTV video scans. Well... good news. Seems they were found and NASA is going to be releasing a much higher quality copies.

"As speculated a few weeks ago, NASA has found and is starting to restore the lost Apollo 11 tapes. A Briefing will be held July 16th at the Newseum in Washington to 'release greatly improved video imagery from the July 1969 live broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk... The original signals were recorded on high quality slow-scan TV (SSTV) tapes. What was released to the TV networks was reduced to lower quality commercial TV standards.'"
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http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/13/2342220
 
Won't stop the conspiracy theorists from trying to pick those apart as well.
 
VanZan said:
Wow - finding tapes lost for 40 years at NASA. Wonder how they do configuration management?
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I have to agree. These were an important record. And they were ‘lost’. Something smells. Also, having worked in an institution with competent archives, I would argue that stuff cannot be ‘lost’. This is NASA, not an overcrowded garage.
 
well if they can show a tyre rolling around on the moon like in the adverts, they can do anything.
 
Cool.
I cannot wait to see the footage of the clouds and clouds of dust that will rise from every foot-step.
I will wait in anticipation for the bit where NASA explain why the low-res footage did not have these dust clouds.

Yes, this is me waving my tinfoil happy tree friends membership card.
 
Forty years ago Thursday, Apollo 11 blasted off on its 280,000-mile journey, fulfilling President Kennedy's 1961 call to reach the moon by the end of the decade.

To commemorate the anniversary, NASA released newly restored video footage of the Apollo 11 moon landings — but the fabled "lost" moon tapes weren't among them.

Those tapes, alas, which preserved the highest-quality raw feed from the moon in July 1969, appear to have been accidentally erased.
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How awfully convenient :erm:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,533160,00.html
 
Well the Lacoss (can't remember if this is the right name) currently mapping the moon will take pictures of the Apollo sites and should be able to show the bottom part of the landers and the moon buggy.
 
Ive always wondered why no one has ever gotten a telescope and proved that flag is there. Surely we have powerful enough telescopes on earth capable of seeing a flag on the moon?

That would put the arguments to bed once and for all.
 
Freshy-ZN said:
Ive always wondered why no one has ever gotten a telescope and proved that flag is there. Surely we have powerful enough telescopes on earth capable of seeing a flag on the moon?

That would put the arguments to bed once and for all.
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I think a Chinese rocket crashed into it.
 
Other countries have used powerful optics and their own moon orbiters and have seen lunar lander base parts and one of the moon rovers on the surface (of the moon).

Explain that then?
 
UtterNutter said:
Other countries have used powerful optics and their own moon orbiters and have seen lunar lander base parts and one of the moon rovers on the surface (of the moon).

Explain that then?
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Probably someone who got lost while looking for parking in Cape Town.
 
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