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Unseen Moon Landing Video Released
bazzalunatic writes "Digitally remastered footage of the moon landing, including high-quality and brighter images of Neil Armstrong stepping off the ladder will be shown for the first time ever to the general public at an awards ceremony in Sydney, Australia. The magnetic data tapes seem to have all been lost — erased — by NASA, so all that's left are VHS recordings, which have been restored, giving the best-ever film of the whole moon landing. The publicity over this seems to be pushing NASA into releasing the whole 3-hour recording."
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There was no Video Home System when the moon landings happened. There was reel to reel tape, and cinescope, but no VHS until 1976.
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I'll hold out for the inevitable 3D Extended Edition BluRay Director's Cut.
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I heard on Slashdot that Lucas is remaking this in 3D, next year.
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Wait... WTF why would NASA "erase" the originals? wouldn't that seem like too momentous of an occasion to destroy???!?!?!?! Or am I miss-reading something here?
Does this mean I finally get to see the shootout with the aliens they had? Sweet!
The 30th anniversary of what? The 10-year reunion?
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An old man, sitting in his couch, watching himself in an old college football match. Repeating over and over the twenty seconds where he scored a touchdown.
But the old man isn't really old. He has a strong, young body. He could stand up and go play another football match. Score another touchdown. But he's too tired, so he'll just play the old tape. Over and over again.
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Why is the first public broadcast of remastered footage of an American moon trip being broadcast in Australia. This makes no sense.
They are saying that only a VHS tape of the landing is left, and that all the original tapes were erased/lost/destroyed. But this new tape is FROM one of those original tapes, albeit from the Sydney archives who relayed the data since they were part of the line-of-sight network to communicate with the astronauts.
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"We discovered, to our horror, that in the 1970s and 80s NASA had taken the tapes in the national archive and erased them all to record other missions."
It's an archive, right? There will be records of who did this, yes? And you have the death penalty in the US - which you tend to otherwise use for inconsequential stuff mostly?
Yes, the idiots reused the tape.
At the time of the Moon landing, three stations - Goldstone in California, Honeysuckle Creek in Canberra, and Parkes in New South Wales - simultaneously recorded the events onto magnetic data tape. The direct recordings were not of broadcast quality, says John, so they had to set up a regular TV camera pointed at a small black-and-white TV screen in the observatory to obtain higher-quality images that could be relayed to television stations around the world.
They didn't use the TV camera to obtain a higher quality, but to convert from the odd signal used by NASA [1] to PAL/NTSC.
1: the nonstandard TV signals were used to make video transmission possible in the small amount of bandwidth available.
As long as the Australian presenter doesn't announce that it was Buzz Aldrin who got off the ladder first.
Really? in my opinion it looks like crap. The original one has some noise, and a hell of a lot more detail, look at the moon's surface around the rover compared to this "higher quality" remaster. There is almost no detail there, just a gray blur.
It literally looks like they just removed the little bit of noise, which i really didn't see a problem with, and then ran it though a soft focus filter
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I hear in this version Buzz Aldrin shoots first.
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SOP.
Tapes where expensive and took a while to get. SOP was to reuse the tapes.
Hey, you wouldn't want them wasting tax dollars on a tape that would just be sitting around, would you?
It's important to remember the context. From pretty much everyones point of view, they would be going to the moon so often it wouldn't be a big deal.
And they where only reused one they had been ensured it had been taped for broad cast. That meant there where many copies in many formats. well 3 formats I think.
There was also a format issue in the 80's the made them reuse tapes for a period. IIRC
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I know "they always intended for it to be brighter and in high definition but they didn't have the budget to do it at the time..." Call me when they announce that it is being remade in 3D.
"high-quality and brighter images of Neil Armstrong stepping off the ladder"
Oh, good, the remastered moon landing. In a year or two we'll get the special edition, with all new special effects. The once-lifeless moon will have all manner of alien life. Probably the golf ball will swing first at the astronauts.
Additional footage of the astronauts' training will be released, but it will be unpopular with fans of the oringal moon landing. Much of the criticism will focus on a goofy sidekick they meet, who somehow seems to play an important role in spite of being a babbling fool.
Later there will be a DVD release with the SE footage alongside the video as it originally aired. HD and 3D versions will follow eventually.
Digitally rerendered footage of the moon landing, ...
The landing was in 1969. The OP has problems with Math and/or time. If he happens to be from this planet.
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Does the original image on the left, in the video actually look sharper to anyone else than the remastered one? I find the remastered one looks blurry. :S
People believe it was faked because they don't want to believe we were capable of something 40 years ago that we are not capable of today. They want to have hope for the future, but the moon landing is an obvious sign of decline (or rather, the fact that it happened so long and we can't do it today is an obvious sign of decline).