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NASA Has the Lost Tapes

Posted by kdawson on from the we-know-what-you-did-on-that-satellite dept.

The Shuttle launch may have been delayed by two days, but NASA has better news to report. caffiend666 writes "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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  1. Glad to hear that by juanergie · · Score: 5, Insightful

    but why do they find the lunar tapes a few days before the 40th celebration of the Lunar mission (Apollo 11).

    Is this a coincidence or PR?

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  2. In answer to your question by sir_eccles · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, it won't convince any of the idiots who think we never landed on the moon. No amount of evidence ever will.

  3. Here's to Packrats! by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    3 Cheers for Packrats!

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