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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 16 2019, @05:38AM   Printer-friendly
from the strapped-for-cash dept.

Now You Can Buy NASA's Own Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage:

Got a player for 2-inch Quadruplex videotapes sitting around? You could view original NASA recordings of the Apollo 11 moon landing in your living room.

Sotheby's is auctioning off three first-generation tapes of the historic touchdown as part of its July 20 auction of space exploration artifacts set to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

The tapes run a total of 2 hours and 24 minutes and capture moments including Neil Armstrong declaring, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Also on the tapes are the "long-distance phone call" with President Richard Nixon and the planting of the American flag on the lunar surface.

[...] Gary George, an engineering student and NASA intern, purchased the tapes for $217.77 at a government surplus auction in 1976. It's estimated they'll sell for at least a $1 million at the Sotheby's event.

I was under the impression that the original tapes had been lost or recorded over. Does anyone else remember hearing that? Either way, this is a irreplaceable national treasure and I am astonished at seeing these up for auction. I am hopeful some philanthropist steps up, buys them, perhaps makes a personal copy, and then donates them to the Library of Congress.


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  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday July 16 2019, @12:24PM

    by Bot (3902) on Tuesday July 16 2019, @12:24PM (#867513) Journal

    I am not sure it's really impossible to fake an analog recording. You can get the old equipment and tapes, feed it a high res fake, fake the passing of time with proper demagnetization/xtalk/noise.

    back to topic, now they can show me whatever, too late. All I remember seeing of the moon mission before CGI fx got gud is material that looks fake. All I hear from the debunkers is stupid fluff. There is a mirror on the moon? So fucking what, russians put stuff too, there. But no living persons appeared in a genuine moon shot till now, for some reason. Frankly, IDC.

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