ConspiracyBuff
08-06-2006, 04:10 AM
YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK
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of Apollo 11 moon landing
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of Neil Armstrong's historic walk on lunar surface
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<HR SIZE=1>Posted: August 5, 2006
5:00 p.m. Eastern
Call it "one small mistake by somebody, one giant loss for mankind."
The original magnetic tapes that recorded the iconic images of man's first footsteps on the moon are missing and scientists fear they are in danger of deteriorating into dust unless they are found quickly and converted to digital format. Australian scientists at the Parkes Observatory (http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/) and the Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station (http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/Apollo_11/) in Australia have launched an intensive effort to find nearly 700 boxes of original, high quality slow-scan TV tapes used to capture the Apollo 11 landing on July 21, 1969. The two Australian stations, along with California's Goldstone station, received signals from the lunar base.
While many people are familiar with the grainy footage showing Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon's surface, most don't know that the original images sent to earth were high-quality transmissions. The conversion of the original signal into a format that could be rebroadcast over standard televisions accounted for the blurry images of Armstrong and fellow lunar astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin. "The quality of what you saw on TV at home was substantially degraded," John Sarkissian, a scientist stationed at Parkes, told the Sydney Morning Herald.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51404
<!-- end standing head --><!-- head -->NASA loses original tapes
of Apollo 11 moon landing
<!-- end head --><!-- deck -->Missing data shows 'significantly sharper images'
of Neil Armstrong's historic walk on lunar surface
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<HR SIZE=1>Posted: August 5, 2006
5:00 p.m. Eastern
Call it "one small mistake by somebody, one giant loss for mankind."
The original magnetic tapes that recorded the iconic images of man's first footsteps on the moon are missing and scientists fear they are in danger of deteriorating into dust unless they are found quickly and converted to digital format. Australian scientists at the Parkes Observatory (http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/) and the Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station (http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/Apollo_11/) in Australia have launched an intensive effort to find nearly 700 boxes of original, high quality slow-scan TV tapes used to capture the Apollo 11 landing on July 21, 1969. The two Australian stations, along with California's Goldstone station, received signals from the lunar base.
While many people are familiar with the grainy footage showing Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon's surface, most don't know that the original images sent to earth were high-quality transmissions. The conversion of the original signal into a format that could be rebroadcast over standard televisions accounted for the blurry images of Armstrong and fellow lunar astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin. "The quality of what you saw on TV at home was substantially degraded," John Sarkissian, a scientist stationed at Parkes, told the Sydney Morning Herald.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51404