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WORLD EXCLUSIVE: NASA FINDS MISSING MOON LANDING TAPES
By Ted Jeory
Daily Express
June 28, 2009
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/110442/WORLD-EXCLUSIVE-NASA-finds-missing-moon-landing-tapes
Ecstatic space officials at Nasa could be about to unveil one of their most
stunning discoveries for 40 years -- new and amazingly clear footage of the
first moon landing.
The release of the new images next month could be one of the most talked
about events of the summer.
The television images the world has been used to seeing of the historic
moment when Neil Armstrong descended down a ladder onto the moon¹s surface
in 1969 is grainy, blurry and dark.
The following scenes, in which the astronauts move around the lunar lander,
are so murky it is difficult to make out exactly what is going on, causing
conspiracy theorists to claim the entire Apollo 11 mission was an elaborate
fraud.
However, viewers have only ever seen such poor quality footage because the
original analogue tapes containing the pictures beamed direct from the lunar
surface were lost almost as soon as they were recorded.
Instead, a poor quality copy made from a 16mm camera pointing at a heavily
compressed image on a black and white TV screen has been the only record of
the event.
The Sunday Express can now reveal that the missing tapes containing the
original high quality images have been found.
If the visual data can be retrieved, Nasa is set to reveal them to the world
as a key plank of celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of the landings
next month.
The tapes show in much more detail than almost anyone has previously seen
the surface of the moon beneath the patriotic symbol of the US flag.
Crucially, they could once and for all dispel 40 years of wild conspiracy
theories.
The low grade, dark and grainy television pictures that were beamed around
the world on July 21 1969 were intended to give Americans just a glimpse of
their country¹s greatest exploratory achievement.
Technology at the time meant Neil Armstrong¹s film, recorded using a special
lunar camera, went through a series of processes, each of which marked a
step down in quality before it hit people¹s living rooms.
From the moon, the signal was beamed to the Earth¹s closest tracking station
at the Parkes Observatory in Australia where, along with other important
data, it was recorded on to high-grade magnetic tapes.
From there, the raw images were downsized to American television resolutions
by a special scanner in Sydney, heavily compressed so they could be
transmitted live, and then relayed to the US via the Intelsat III satellite.
The final loss in quality came when Nasa made its US recording of the event
-- the one always seen in archive footage -- by simply placing a 16mm film
camera in front of a television monitor in the US.
However, it is the original magnetic tapes recorded back at the Parkes
Observatory in Australia that contained the unadulterated and highest
quality images.
To the later horror of researchers and scientists, it was those tapes that
went missing.
Houston finally admitted to the world it had a problem four years ago and
launched a desperate plea for help, issuing a Œwanted¹ notice with clues to
where the elusive tapes might be.
Most suspected they had been shipped from Australia to an American archive
and then mislaid.
However, recently scientists looking for other data stumbled across a number
of Nasa tapes in a storage facility in Perth, Australia.
They thought they merely contained details of moon dust from several Apollo
missions.
But Nasa confirmed to the Sunday Express that they also contain the video
data of the Apollo 11 landing.
³We¹re talking about the same tapes,² a Nasa spokesman said when challenged.
Perhaps unhappy that a secret they had planned to grandly announce in three
weeks had been rumbled, he added: ³At this point, I¹m not prepared to
discuss what has or has not been found.
³The research team is preparing its final report and we¹ll release those
findings publicly in the coming weeks.²
When asked for an interview with the research team, the Nasa official
appeared to give the game away.
³Sure,² he said, ³although we¹re not likely to scoop ourselves on much.²
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