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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. Re:Cool, any UFOs? by jerep · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm pretty sure anything even slightly controversial will be edited off the tapes before they're released. I wouldn't trust NASA to release any information other than random discoveries.

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  2. Re:Who has been to the Newseum? by tyrione · · Score: 0, Troll

    I tried to go once, but it turned out that the tickets are $19 bucks. Is it worth the price?

    If $19 is too much you have more pressing concerns than being enriched with history and science.

  3. if moon landings were possible in 1969... by DragonTHC · · Score: 0, Troll

    wouldn't they be common today?

    surely technology has skyrocketed since then.

    does anyone really remember what 'state of the art' was in 1969?

    everything was overly heavy and large and bulky. The IC had just been mass produced 6 years earlier.

    In fact, every major advancement we achieved in any form of technology for the two decades after was due to the moon missions.

    I'm just wondering why we haven't gone back? No money? No interest?

    Not possible?

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