NASA Holds Briefing to Release Restored Apollo 11 Moonwalk Video

July 13, 2009

Mark Hess
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
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Tina Tate
The Newseum, Washington
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MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-125

NASA HOLDS BRIEFING TO RELEASE RESTORED APOLLO 11 MOONWALK VIDEO

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media briefing at 11 a.m. EDT on
Thursday, July 16, at the Newseum in Washington to release greatly
improved video imagery from the July 1969 live broadcast of the
Apollo 11 moonwalk.

The release will feature 15 key moments from Neil Armstrong's and
Buzz
Aldrin's historic moonwalk using what is believed to be the best
available broadcast-format copies of the lunar excursion, some of
which had been locked away for nearly 40 years. The initial video
released Thursday is part of a comprehensive Apollo 11 moonwalk
restoration project expected to be completed by the fall.

The Newseum is located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. The news
conference will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on
the agency's Internet homepage.

Participants in the briefing will be:
-- Richard Nafzger, team lead and Goddard engineer
-- Stan Lebar, former Westinghouse Electric program manager
-- Mike Inchalik, president of Lowry Digital, Burbank, Calif.

For NASA TV downlink information, schedule information and streaming
video, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

The Newseum is a 250,000-square-foot museum of news. The exterior's
unique architectural features include a 74-foot-high marble engraving
of the First Amendment and an immense front wall of glass through
which passers-by can watch the museum fulfilling its mission of
providing a forum where the media and the public can gain a better
understanding of each other. More information about the Newseum is
available online at:

http://www.newseum.org

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