Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)
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Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)
#2This post is from 2009
Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)
#3This post is from 2009
Thanks, added.
Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)
#4Link to the restored videos mentioned in the article:
Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)
#5Sounds like the best way to hide any editing done to the original tapes.
puts foil hat on
Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)
#6They erased one of the most important historical documents of our time, that was a very bad mistake.
Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)
#7They erased one of the most important historical documents of our time, that was a very bad mistake.
> The bad news is they were part of a batch of 200,000 tapes that were degaussed -- magnetically erased -- and re-used to save money.
You'd think an organization like NASA can plan their budgets a bit better than that.
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#8More background - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes
Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)
#9Nothing crazy about doubting the moon landing with 1960s technology. Watch the Aulis production based on the book Dark Moon.
Re: Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits (2009)
#10Sounds like the best way to hide any editing done to the original tapes. puts foil hat on
It's ok, you can take the foil hat off. The broadcast from the moon was relayed live to TV stations across the world. The tapes they're talking about were just NASA's recordings of that direct broadcast. So there never was any opportunity for the tapes to be edited like that, because they didn't sit in the chain between the cameras on the moon and the broadcasts everyone saw on their TVs. Fortunately other news organisations (and probably governments) also taped the broadcast as well, hence we still have recordings available.
In fact, it was technologically impossible to record the entire live broadcast on a single tape because tapes with enough capacity didn't exist until many years later. Therefore a faked broadcast from tapes would have had visible transitions as they switched from tape to tape. These transitions would have been visible on the taped copies of the broadcast which the currently available recordings derive from.