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From http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/07/13/1654200.shtml
Apollo 11 TV Tapes Go Missing Posted by timothy on Thursday July 13, @07:22PM from the check-the-roswell-basement dept. NASA Space Richard W.M. Jones writes "On July 21st 1969, Honeysuckle Creek observatory brought us the first TV pictures of men on the moon. The original signals were recorded on high quality slow-scan TV (SSTV) tapes. What was released to the TV networks was reduced to lower quality commercial TV standards. Unfortunately John Sarkissian of Parkes Observatory Australia reports that 698 of the 700 boxes of original tapes have gone missing [warning: large PDF] from the U.S. National Archives. Even more worryingly, the last place on earth which can actually read these tapes is scheduled to close in October this year. The PDF contains interesting comparisons which show that if all you've seen are the TV pictures from the landing, you really haven't seen the first moon walk in its full glory." PDF: http://www.honeysucklecreek.net.nyud.net:8..._SSTV_Tapes.pdf SITE: http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/Apollo_11/TV_from_Moon.html |
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hal_9000 Apollo 11 TV Tapes Go Missing Jul 15 2006, 12:28 AM
DonPMitchell Since no one mentioned it, I thought I'd point... Jul 21 2006, 03:11 AM Phil Stooke Oh yes, I certainly did. I was a teenager in Engl... Jul 21 2006, 03:25 AM
Stephen QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jul 21 2006, 03:25 A... Jul 24 2006, 01:21 AM Bob Shaw I audio taped much of the BBC TV Apollo coverage, ... Jul 24 2006, 08:52 PM dvandorn QUOTE (Stephen @ Jul 23 2006, 08:21 PM) .... Jul 25 2006, 03:18 PM dvandorn Yep -- thirty-seven years and thirty-eight minutes... Jul 21 2006, 03:38 AM Toma B QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jul 21 2006, 05:38 AM) ... Jul 21 2006, 07:19 AM elakdawalla To my sadness I was born too late (1975) to witnes... Jul 21 2006, 04:09 PM djellison I too missed the whole Apollo experience ( by 3 ye... Jul 21 2006, 04:25 PM AlexBlackwell QUOTE (djellison @ Jul 21 2006, 06:25 AM)... Jul 21 2006, 04:43 PM Phil Stooke I think there's still plenty of exploration to... Jul 21 2006, 05:05 PM AlexBlackwell QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jul 21 2006, 07:05 A... Jul 21 2006, 06:27 PM Bill Harris I was a college sophomore at Apollo 11 and remembe... Jul 21 2006, 06:12 PM AlexBlackwell QUOTE (Bill Harris @ Jul 21 2006, 08:12 A... Jul 21 2006, 06:31 PM The Messenger QUOTE (hal_9000 @ Jul 14 2006, 06:28 PM) ... Jul 21 2006, 06:23 PM dvandorn My favorite site to visit would be the rim of Tych... Jul 21 2006, 08:02 PM tasp According to the last issue of Air and Space magaz... Jul 25 2006, 01:06 AM Stephen QUOTE (tasp @ Jul 25 2006, 01:06 AM) Acco... Jul 25 2006, 02:55 AM tasp Sorry for not giving more info.
September 2006 is... Jul 25 2006, 02:43 PM tasp This is a pretty major thing, with the sample retu... Jul 25 2006, 02:45 PM ljk4-1 Just imagine how the lack of a lunar surface camer... Jul 25 2006, 03:32 PM paulanderson Just to get back on topic... what about the fact t... Jul 25 2006, 04:49 PM Astro0 About the missing tapes.
It is one of the holy gr... Jul 26 2006, 01:49 AM climber I was 15 when Neil & Buzz walked on the Moon. ... Jul 26 2006, 09:18 AM Bill Harris QUOTE New footage recently came to light through p... Jul 31 2006, 03:28 PM Astro0 Astro0, are you in the group photo on the intro pa... Aug 15 2006, 12:52 AM djellison Good Space.com article ( http://www.space.com/news... Aug 13 2006, 05:05 PM Phil Stooke I have a finger in every pie. Talk about unhygien... Aug 14 2006, 12:45 PM DDAVIS A bit late but here is my annual Apollo related co... Aug 14 2006, 05:26 PM David QUOTE (DDAVIS @ Aug 14 2006, 05:26 PM) A ... Aug 14 2006, 05:35 PM ElkGroveDan QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Aug 14 2006, 04:45 A... Aug 15 2006, 05:56 AM nprev Even more ominously and far less poetically, I am ... Aug 15 2006, 05:53 AM djellison RH is nothing short of scum imho - and I'd rat... Aug 15 2006, 07:24 AM DonPMitchell Just as an FYI, I was involved in a discussion of ... Aug 15 2006, 08:29 AM Sunspot The story of the missing tapes has made its way to... Aug 15 2006, 08:46 AM ups "A coalition of scientists and Nasa veterans ... Aug 15 2006, 12:05 PM Phil Stooke Very interesting about Mr Thingy. I told that gan... Aug 15 2006, 02:33 PM Myran QUOTE Sunspot wrote: The story of the missing tape... Aug 15 2006, 07:14 PM alan It was just mentioned on Keith Olberman's show... Aug 16 2006, 12:58 AM ljk4-1 NASA Provides Further Update On Apollo 11 Tapes
W... Aug 16 2006, 02:58 PM lyford Pink Floyd to the rescue! (maybe...)
One Sma... Aug 21 2006, 04:27 AM lyford Tapes Found
QUOTE Last week, up to 100 tapes, cle... Nov 1 2006, 07:56 PM JTN Doesn't sound like the found tapes are the one... Nov 1 2006, 11:20 PM Stephen QUOTE (JTN @ Nov 2 2006, 10:20 AM) Doesn... Nov 2 2006, 12:06 AM nprev Outrageous.
What's even scarier is that mo... Nov 2 2006, 01:54 AM tasp Ghastly if it turns out some one recorded episodes... Nov 2 2006, 02:29 AM dvandorn "...That's one small step for... <buzz... Nov 2 2006, 02:37 AM nprev ...or Arnold the pig oinks out "one giant lea... Nov 2 2006, 05:38 AM lyford Apollo TV Tapes: The Search Continues
QUOTE Vinta... Nov 9 2006, 02:29 AM nprev You know, if this was at all analogous to the reco... Nov 9 2006, 07:36 AM MarkG QUOTE You know, if this was at all analogous to th... Jan 7 2007, 11:02 PM nprev Well, that's true. I still think that Isabella... Jan 8 2007, 02:24 AM ljk4-1 Wired article on the missing Apollo 11 tapes:
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