Chalupa Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 Mon Aug 14, 5:48 PM ET The U.S. government has misplaced the original recording of the first moon landing, including astronaut Neil Armstrong's famous "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," a NASA spokesman said on Monday. Armstrong's famous space walk, seen by millions of viewers on July 20, 1969, is among transmissions that NASA has failed to turn up in a year of searching, spokesman Grey Hautaloma said. "We haven't seen them for quite a while. We've been looking for over a year and they haven't turned up," Hautaloma said. The tapes also contain data about the health of the astronauts and the condition of the spacecraft. In all, some 700 boxes of transmissions from the Apollo lunar missions are missing, he said. "I wouldn't say we're worried -- we've got all the data. Everything on the tapes we have in one form or another," Hautaloma said. NASA has retained copies of the television broadcasts and offers several clips on its Web site. But those images are of lower quality than the originals stored on the missing magnetic tapes. Because NASA's equipment was not compatible with TV technology of the day, the original transmissions had to be displayed on a monitor and re-shot by a TV camera for broadcast. Hautaloma said it is possible the tapes will be unplayable even if they are found, because they have degraded significantly over the years -- a problem common to magnetic tape and other types of recordable media. The material was held by the National Archives but returned to NASA sometime in the late 1970s, he said. "We're looking for paperwork to see where they last were," he said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Berger Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 What are the odds that some record collector will find it... Guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 Check Youtube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted August 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 What are the odds that some record collector will find it... Guy Yeah, at some flea market in the same box w/ the Coltrane/Wes Montgomery tape from Monterey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulstation1 Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 YOUTUBE LINK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 Check ebay completed auctions. You never know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 Wonder how NASA ever managed to send men on the moon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 YOUTUBE LINK That's the censored version made for public TV. Here is the original NASA tape: http://www.blogjam.com/neil_armstrong/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjobbe Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 Wonder how NASA ever managed to send men on the moon are you sure they are back already... maybe they took the wrong flight back or still waiting at the lost baggage claim checking their hold luggage Cheers, Tjobbe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 There are plenty skeptics who doubt they have been on the moon at all ...... would be the perfect deal if the tapes were gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 are you sure they are back already... maybe they took the wrong flight back or still waiting at the lost baggage claim checking their hold luggage They probably ran into trouble while trying to check in their hand baggage ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeCity Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 are you sure they are back already... maybe they took the wrong flight back or still waiting at the lost baggage claim checking their hold luggage They probably ran into trouble while trying to check in their hand baggage ..... If they were going up today, they wouldn't be able to take the Tang onboard! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noj Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 It's a well-known fact that the "moon landing" was filmed on the back lot of Universal Studios. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 Pretty sure they're wrapped around a Buddy Bolden cylinder...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 YOUTUBE LINK That's the censored version made for public TV. Here is the original NASA tape: http://www.blogjam.com/neil_armstrong/ LOL. Hadn't seen that in awhile. Still very funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 What a bunch of idiots. Maybe the National Archives should have kept the tapes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 There are plenty skeptics who doubt they have been on the moon at all ...... would be the perfect deal if the tapes were gone. Yeah, maybe the tapes were stolen by a cadre of moon-landing-deniers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 Didn't NASA also destroy the original blueprints for the Saturn 5 launch vehicle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 Pretty sure they're wrapped around a Buddy Bolden cylinder...... No, they're with GG's "Live at Club Mozambique" tapes. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 what do u mean censored? what had to be censored? my computer cant play the videos....cansomeone tellme? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 They all say "fuck" quite a lot. Dunno whether it's a joke or real. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeBop Posted August 15, 2006 Report Share Posted August 15, 2006 Maybe Rudy VanGelder took them to remaster. Well, if all else fails, call Michael Cuscuna. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgraham333 Posted August 16, 2006 Report Share Posted August 16, 2006 I heard Naima Coltrane's daughter Saida* (also known as Antonia Andrews) and Saida's brother Jamail Dennis had it and tried to sell it at auction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted August 16, 2006 Report Share Posted August 16, 2006 What a bunch of idiots. Maybe the National Archives should have kept the tapes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalupa Posted August 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2006 YOUTUBE LINK That's the censored version made for public TV. Here is the original NASA tape: http://www.blogjam.com/neil_armstrong/ LOL. Hadn't seen that in awhile. Still very funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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