NASA Can't Find The Apollo Video Tapes . . .
 

NASA has apparently misplaced all the original, super-clear, never-broadcast tapes of the Apollo missions.

http://www.forbes.com/technology/ebusiness/feeds/ap/2006/08/15/ap2952087.html

Red-faced because the best pictures of its glory days are missing, NASA said Tuesday it was launching an official search for more than 13,000 original tapes of the historic Apollo moon missions.

What's missing are the never-before-broadcast clear original videos - not the grainy converted pictures the world watched on television more than three decades ago.

The tapes aren't lost, insists the NASA official put in charge of the search. But he doesn't know where they are.

Most likely they are somewhere at the sprawling Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., which misplaced the tapes originally. But they also could be stored somewhere else.

The original video, taken directly from the moon and beamed to deep space network observatories in Australia, has never been seen by the general public or even NASA officials.

damn, they're going to have to fake it all over again...

Keep an eye on Ebay boys...

this will proove my (Capricorn 1) conspiracy theory that man never went to the moon, cos its made of swiss cheese

Hilarious. They can track (along with NORAD) several thousand teeny tiny objects in earth orbit - some the size of marbles - and they can't find the most significant archive items in their history.

Your tax dollars at work people.

I swear government is about the only thing in the universe that operates less efficiently than large corporations - yet somehow both manage to survive. . .

"I've never actually been lost. Turned around a bit for a season or two, but never lost..."

Jim Bridger, mountain man and fur trapper, circa 1840.

Honestly, I am not too suprised.

I can't find my keys that I just put down 5 minutes ago, let alone something from 38 years gone by!

Probably in that one box right next to the lost ark...


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Someone probably taped "Debbie Does Dallas" over it.

It does make you think the worse though.:)

If you see a NASA film crew flying down to Lauca or Los Flamencos National Park in Chile you know what to expect.:D

The Coast To Coast AM crowd has been talking about this for the better part of the last year.

OOPS!!

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I would return it , but I have my RUF videos on there now..sorry folks.
Rika

Looks like they found one of them.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/one-small-step/2006/08/19/1155408073519.html

The Dark Side Of The Moon ........Pink Floyd film.........far out man.

Funny how things work out sometimes.