Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits

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http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...56F5MK20090716

Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits
Thu Jul 16, 2009 3:49pm EDT

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The original recordings of the first humans
landing on the moon 40 years ago were erased and re-used, but newly
restored copies of the original broadcast look even better, NASA
officials said on Thursday.

NASA released the first glimpses of a complete digital make-over of the
original landing footage that clarifies the blurry and grainy images of
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the surface of the moon.

The full set of recordings, being cleaned up by Burbank, California-based
Lowry Digital, will be released in September. The preview is available at
www.nasa.gov.

NASA admitted in 2006 that no one could find the original video
recordings of the July 20, 1969, landing.

Since then, Richard Nafzger, an engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight
Center in Maryland, who oversaw television processing at the ground-
tracking sites during the Apollo 11 mission, has been looking for them.

The good news is he found where they went. The bad news is they were part
of a batch of 200,000 tapes that were degaussed -- magnetically erased --
and re-used to save money.

They found good copies in the archives of CBS news and some recordings
called kinescopes found in film vaults at Johnson Space Center.

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Looks like the CT crowd was right again. How could these be accidentally
erased???