NASA refurbishes video copies of moon landing

[daveypoo]

WASHINGTON — NASA still can't find its lost original moon landing videotapes. But that first moonwalk never looked better, thanks to new digitally refurbished copies unveiled Thursday.

The original live video was ghostlike and grainy. NASA and a Hollywood film restoration company took television video copies of what Apollo 11 beamed to Earth on July 20, 1969, and made the pictures look sharper.

The pictures themselves are not new. But some details are. Originally, Armstrong's face visor was too fuzzy to be seen. The refurbished video shows his visor and a reflection in it.

The original videos beamed to earth were stored on giant reels of tapes that contained 15 minutes of video along with 13 other channels of live data from the moon. In the 1970s and 1980s, NASA had a shortage of the tapes and erased about 200,000 of those tapes and reused them.

Ok, you mean to tell me that an organization with some of the SMARTEST people in the world did one of the dumbest things a human could EVER do by erasing history?!?!?
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[Figmentathm]

Or was the erasing done intentionally because there were things on the tapes that proved that we never actually went to the moon. It was all an elaborate hoax.

A survey just out shows that 14% of the respondents believe we never did land on the moon.
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[WDWFan]

SMARTEST people? a Hoax? Could be. Could be..

But first why not follow Occam's razor where it cuts....

It is a government organization and screws things up like this as all of our wonderful over-funded government organizations do. (over funded based on my taxes, not based on how it is allocated) Be it over-written or lost, it is typical government work.

Name another Government Dept that would report something like this that would NOT surprise you.