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NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction

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

martyb writes:

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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• Re:Half a century of going backwards (Score: 3, Interesting) by legont on Wednesday July 17 2019, @01:55AM

  by legont (4179) on Wednesday July 17 2019, @01:55AM (#867800)

  women weren't invented until the 1970s, apparently

  Bullshit. Women were used, for example, to convince man that they could fly modern aircraft at all.

  While many of these women wanted to fly combat missions, to the US Army it was out of the question. In fact, many people across the country didn’t believe women could fly a military airplane at all. The Army used this to their advantage. The male pilots were resistant to learning to fly the newest … and most complicated plane yet: the B29. The solution: have the WASPs show them how it was done. When the male pilots saw two women flying the B29, they stopped complaining and got to work.

  http://www.clarabartonmuseum.org/wasps/ [clarabartonmuseum.org]

  --
  "Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.

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