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NASA Releases Restored Apollo 11 Video, But Originals Lost
leetrout writes "I attended a media briefing held by NASA at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. this morning where they released restored video of the Apollo 11 mission. The clips released are about 40% of the total footage to be restored by September by Lowry Digital in Burbank, CA. Wired has all the clips. A couple remarkable comments made during the briefing included the opinion from the original footage search committee that the original slow scan footage (stored as a single track on telemetry tapes) has been lost forever as the tapes were likely recycled by the mid '80s (apparently common NASA practice). Also, that someone from the applied physics laboratory was in Australia converting the slow scan directly to video. This differs from NASA's goal of merely broadcasting the event, at which it was successful. Unfortunately, no one knows where those tapes of approximately two hours of footage are located."
Ok so what you're telling me is, the most important event in the history of the human race was taped over?
How convenient. I want to see recent telescope pictures of the moon showing the rovers and the flag.
They're using their grammar skills there.
Imagine sending a female-only crew to Mars - it's what, about 90 days to get there, a few days wandering around, and another 90 to get back. Imagine the atmosphere in the cabin when their cycles synchronise...and I'm not talking about the O2/N ratios.
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
If we can send a man to the moon, why can't we store the damn tapes of the event properly?!
IF, of course, being the key word.
I worship logic.
http://opencm3.net, http://www.nongnu.org/gm2/