You guys are being way to harsh on NASA. Magnetic tape is a scarce commodity, and needs to be reused whenever possible. The moon landings were hardly worthy of permanent archiving on the original tapes. In fact I can't believe NASA feels it necessary to store the STS mission videos in digital format, think of all that disk storage going to waste on such superfluous endeavors.

Now how do you erase and re use the originals but then get newly restored copies that look better than the original?

Originally posted by frankensence
You guys are being way to harsh on NASA. Magnetic tape is a scarce commodity, and needs to be reused whenever possible. The moon landings were hardly worthy of permanent archiving on the original tapes. In fact I can't believe NASA feels it necessary to store the STS mission videos in digital format, think of all that disk storage going to waste on such superfluous endeavors.

Edit: LOL OOPS. Didn't pick up on the sarcasm before my OP. Was a bit too angry.

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What freakin' planet am I on?

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Originally posted by zorgon
Now how do you erase and re use the originals but then get newly restored copies that look better than the original?

Because they simply retouched the 'original' footage that Americans saw, which was a video-taping of a screen in Houston...in effect a copy of a copy.

I never believed in a moon landing conspiray until now,when the some of the most famous footage ever recorded in history apparently accidentally gets erased.

I now believe there is some conspiracy going on what that is who know,maybe they did really fake the footage NOT because they didn't land on the moon i believe they did but because the original quality was that bad.Obviously if this was the case they certainly wouldn't want that coming to light with all the
"moon landing was a faked" going on.But what a time to admit it guess they didn't have a choice,reminds me of the fredrick valentich ufo case

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Why is it so hard to believe the first landings were faked?

How can they loose or tape over a monumental piece of film. What utter BS.

So the most historic moment in Human History, and somebody " erases" the tapes to "reuse " them as if their budget didn't supply them with enough tapes....

If this hit MS news 50% would believe it and not think twice..

The other half........The smarter more intelligent half of our dumb countries population would instantly realize something is up....................

You don't copy over old wedding footage let alone the first moon landing.........

Weddings happen every day and those tapes always can be found 20 years later......but this is a once in a life time thing and " Oops my bad " happens ??


I used the wedding reference myself, no it has nothing to do with post, just reference...

lol, yes I was being sarcastic so my apologies to anyone if my response led to any confusion!

I mean, I still have original newspaper clippings of the moon landings from 1969, and I would think that anything pertaining to the moon landings in NASA's possession would have been turned over to the National Archives or at least treated like treasure. It's one thing for a television network to have a policy of reusing tape, but for the agency responsible for putting men on the moon to erase them is sheer folly or signs of complete neglect.

lol, yes I was being sarcastic so my apologies to anyone if my response led to any confusion!

I mean, I still have original newspaper clippings of the moon landings from 1969, and I would think that anything pertaining to the moon landings in NASA's possession would have been turned over to the National Archives or at least treated like treasure. It's one thing for a television network to have a policy of reusing tape, but for the agency responsible for putting men on the moon to erase them is sheer folly or signs of complete neglect.

Originally posted by frankensence
You guys are being way to harsh on NASA. Magnetic tape is a scarce commodity, and needs to be reused whenever possible. The moon landings were hardly worthy of permanent archiving on the original tapes. In fact I can't believe NASA feels it necessary to store the STS mission videos in digital format, think of all that disk storage going to waste on such superfluous endeavors.

Although you may THINK what you are saying is logical I must simply disagree for two reasons.

1) They are a government entity and should NEVER destroy anything. Even the STS missions with all that space being taken up.

2) It's OUR PROPERTY not theirs! Who paid for it?

#2 above is the single most overlooked and important reason. Sure, magnetic tape is/was a pain in the rear but it's still 'supposedly' (though I lean heavily towards us landing) one of the most important events of our history. Period.

To give such a lame excuse about them being 'accidentally' erased only sparks the conspiracy theories even more.

More of our tax dollars being wasted.

And please don't give the reply of wasting tax dollars on storing this stuff. It's our property and that property has a value attached to it. More than the money that has been filtered into the space program. We have a right to view ANY tapes or images they have but they refuse to do so.

Why would that be? And when you also reply to that stating that they do willingly allow for all images to be viewed know this, I sent in a formal request. When asked to pay or give a reason not to pay (a terrible question) I replied stating that I already paid for this with my tax dollars.

Anyway, their reply, which unfortunately is gone now with the account I used at that time, was simply that due to national security reasons the archives are not made available. That all of the 'good' pictures are on their website.

Yup, their straight shooters alright.

Edit to add: Just so you know, this reply wasn't directed, well, directly at you. It was at the statements (even though it was filled with sarcasm) for those that may actually believe what you said or take it completely to heart.

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