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Astronomy => In the Media... => Topic started by: Rick on Jul 03, 2009, 12:07:51

Title: NASA reacquires original Moon landing footage
Post by: Rick on Jul 03, 2009, 12:07:51
NASA has seemingly confirmed that the original taped recordings of the first Moon landing have turned up in Australia - almost three years after the agency admitted it had carelessly mislaid them.

The Parkes Observatory in Australia captured the 1969 live images straight from the lunar surface to magnetic tape. What the US public saw, though was a compressed feed "downsized" to local TV resolutions, while NASA itself grabbed a 16mm copy from a TV monitor.

More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/29/moon_landing_tapes/