[QuadList] NPR story: Houston, We Erased The Apollo 11 Tapes

[Ted Langdell]

 From NPR:

Morning Edition, July 16, 2009 ·An exhaustive, three-year search for  
some tapes that contained the original footage of the Apollo 11  
moonwalk has concluded that they were probably destroyed during a  
period when NASA was erasing old magnetic tapes and reusing them to  
record satellite data.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106637066

NASA has, however, offered up a consolation prize for the 40th  
anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission — the agency has taken the best  
available broadcast television footage and contracted with a digital  
restoration firm to enhance it, so that the public can see the first  
moonwalk in more detail than ever before.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/hd/apollo11.html

The restoration is ongoing at Lowery Digital in Burbank and is  
supposed to be finished in September.

You can watch the 11AM EDT news briefing (at 8 am PDT) on the NASA  
cable, satellite or internet channels:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

July 16, Thursday
11 a.m. - NASA News Briefing on Restored Apollo 11 Moonwalk Video from  
the Newseum - HQ (All Channels)
1 p.m. - Apollo 40th Anniversary Roundtable - HQ (All Channels)

There are other Apollo special programs this week:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Breaking.html

Ted

Ted Langdell
Secretary
Skype: 	TedLangdell
e-mail:	ted at quadvideotapegroup.com

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