Jan 10th, 2007
“One Giant Screwup for Mankind”
My favorite magazine, one that I actually have delivered to my home, is Wired. I have never been disappointed in a single issue. In fact, I just finished reading a great article in this month’s issue about how NASA has LOST the raw footage of the Apollo 11 moon landing. If you’re interested at all in archival issues, you should read this article.
Here’s a short excerpt:
“Not long ago, Lebar learned why the footage had looked like mush: The transfer and broadcast had degraded the image badly, like a third-generation photocopy. “What the world saw was some bastardized thing,” says Lebar, now 81. “Posterity deserves more than that.” Good thing the engineers in Australia recorded the raw feed. Now Lebar and a crew of seasoned space cowboys are trying to get that original footage and show it to the world.
There is just one problem: NASA has lost the tapes.”
