News Nasa finds missing moon landing tapes

[agentgonzo]

Apollo 11 master tapes found in Parkes Observatory in Australia
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/29/moon_landing_tapes/

 

[DaveS]

Bogus. The Daily Mail published this story yesterday and NASA denies every single part of it. This Bob Jacobs(NASA HQ PAO) tweet about it: http://twitter.com/bnjacobs/status/2374783194

 

[Ark]

Bogus. The Daily Mail published this story yesterday and NASA denies every single part of it. This Bob Jacobs(NASA HQ PAO) tweet about it: http://twitter.com/bnjacobs/status/2374783194

Damnit.

 

[Artlav]

I wonder, how many people have actually seen these transmissions in their full quality?
Mission control crew, and some scientists?

 

[Brycesv1]

i dont think it should be classified. y cant everyone see the tapes of a massive historical event?

 

[agentgonzo]

i dont think it should be classified. y cant everyone see the tapes of a massive historical event?

I don't think it is classified.

 

[DaveS]

I don't think it is classified.

Correct. It never has been classified and I fail to see the reason to classify the video in the first place.

 

[Ark]

Aliens.

 

[doggie015]

Aliens.

:withstupid: Sorry, couldn't resist! :lol:

But seriously, if aliens did show up it would have either been broadcast live to the world or bottled up in some archive somewhere to be broadcast sometime yesterday as a diversion but MJ went 6 feet under so they are waiting another few decades before playing it.

 

[Ark]

If there are aliens up there, they best take cover before LCROSS hits. :lol:

 

[C3PO]

I wonder, how many people have actually seen these transmissions in their full quality?
Mission control crew, and some scientists?

The pictures transmitted world wide was a TV-camera pointing at a monitor. The reason for this was that the original signal was in a different format(SlowScanTV). But where was this "conversion" made? I think it was done in Australia, but I'm not quite sure.
That would mean that (relatively) few people saw the pictures in the original quality.
Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes

 

[Urwumpe]

It had been done in at least three places in the world. Most people saw the slow scan conversion from Australia, but I know that USSR and the Bochum observatory also did their own conversions of at least one Apollo mission.