NASA's new restored footage of the Apollo 11 moon landing
To honor the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, NASA has just released these brand new restored videos of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's historic first steps on the moon. The space agency is working with Lowry Digital in Burbank to restore tapes from the July 20, 1969 moonwalk &mdash the project in its entirety will be completed in the fall, but they're offering a sneak peek at some of the iconic moments, like Neil Armstrong (above) and Buzz Aldrin (below) taking their first steps on the moon, starting right now. These clips show side-by-side comparisons of the footage stored in the NASA archives vs. the never-seen-before newly restored footage.
Stay tuned for more reporting about the "lost" Apollo 11 tapes and an interview with Buzz Aldrin on Monday.
Below, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin raising the American flag on the moon's surface:
Footage courtesy of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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MichaelRN
#1 – 5:55 AM July 16, 2009
Beautiful, just beautiful
word_virus
#2 – 6:50 AM July 16, 2009
Lovingly restored by NASA, then watched by most in craptacular compressed FLV format. Oh, irony.
Michael Ugarte
#3 – 6:52 AM July 16, 2009
What an awesome sight.... Takes my breath away!
ka1axy
#4 – 6:52 AM July 16, 2009
Well, not the *original, original* tapes. Those, according to the report on NPR this morning (16 July), were the subject of an exhaustive search, which concluded that they were most likely removed from the archives and overwritten in the 80s, due to a shortage of tapes required to record massive amounts of data from new satellites.
What's being released are digitally enhanced/restored versions of the lo-res broadcast tapes.
Better than nothing, but not as good as what might have been.
Zan
#5 – 7:06 AM July 16, 2009
NPR Story referenced above is at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106637066
FunkDaddy
#6 – 7:09 AM July 16, 2009
Yeah, pretty silly that they didn't label the moon landing tapes and keep them safe - y'know, it only being the visual record one of mankind's greatest achievements. Conspiracy theorists are gonna love this...
technogeek
#7 – 7:46 AM July 16, 2009
#5: That's entirely our fault as voters, for pinching pennies to the point where NASA felt compelled to scavenge and reuse magtape rather than buying more.
tsdguy
#8 – 9:34 AM July 16, 2009
Believe I've read more about this someplace. Evidently the first landing was broadcast using slow scan video and what you're watching is actually a video conversion (Kinescope of sorts).
Thought I saw that they did find these tapes?
BTW: Um, the restored version looked crappier than the original or is that old case of malaria kicking in?
cinemajay
#9 – 9:55 AM July 16, 2009
I could have sworn they found the tapes. I saw several articles stating this:
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/110442/WORLD-EXCLUSIVE-NASA-finds-missing-moon-landing-tapes
But then I saw this:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/06/28/lost-apollo-11-video-tapes-found/
:(
/so frustrating
O_M
#10 – 12:25 PM July 16, 2009
...While these look damn good, they're not *THAT* much better than the cleanups and enhancements done by Spacecraft Films a couple of years ago. Still, it should be interesting to see the whole EVA when NASA finishes piecemealing them out.
Anonymous Anonymous
#11 – 4:00 PM July 16, 2009
Wow, I didn't know it was windy on the moon.
Tech
#12 – 5:56 PM July 16, 2009
When are they going to send someone to walk on the moon again? It's been 40 years!
murray
#13 – 8:25 PM July 16, 2009
Strange. To me, the originals look better. This seems just like what happens when you run too-strong noise reduction on a photo, killing fine detail in the process. It looks smooth and smooshy.
Rickyneck
#14 – 9:01 PM July 16, 2009
Uh ah .... here the "moonbats". No pun intended. I hope that more of these low-energy of the astronauts will have to face the challenges facing the fact that the "fake" moon landing. I hope that they are rapidly NASA fist in the face.
O_M
#15 – 7:25 PM July 18, 2009
...Does anyone have one iota of a fracking clue what Rickyneck just babbled? Trying to translate that seriously made my brain hurt.
Enochrewt
#16 – 8:15 AM July 20, 2009
#15: Sorry, I don't speak "Moran".