Unseen Moon Landing Video Released 212
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."
NASA erased the origionals? did I read that right? (Score:2, Interesting)
NASA....in Australia!? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:NASA erased the origionals? did I read that rig (Score:5, Interesting)
Yes, the idiots reused the tape [wikipedia.org].
Re:NASA erased the origionals? did I read that rig (Score:5, Interesting)
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
remastered? (Score:2, Interesting)