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[dauss]

NASA Searching for Moon Landing Tapes

Red-faced because the best pictures of its glory days are missing, NASA said Tuesday it was launching an official search for more than 13,000 original tapes of the historic Apollo moon missions.

What's missing are the never-before-broadcast clear original videos - not the grainy converted pictures the world watched on television more than three decades ago.

The tapes aren't lost, insists the NASA official put in charge of the search. But he doesn't know where they are.

Most likely they are somewhere at the sprawling Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., which misplaced the tapes originally. But they also could be stored somewhere else.

The original video, taken directly from the moon and beamed to deep space network observatories in Australia, has never been seen by the general public or even NASA officials.

The entire world watched fuzzy, ghostlike images of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon. But only a handful of technicians saw the good stuff live, sharp enough to see Armstrong's reflection in Aldrin's faceplate, said Stan Lebar, the retired Apollo television camera manager.

"The quality ... is two, three or four times better than we ever saw," said Richard Nafzger, a senior engineer at Goddard who on Tuesday was put in charge of the search effort.

The original tapes played 10 frames per second in Australia, Nafzger said. But television needed 60 frames per second so each picture was repeated six times and "you'd see ghosting," he said.

Until Tuesday, the search for the tapes was a spare-time deal and retirement hobby for Nafzger and the 81-year-old Lebar - not anything organized. Now with news reports of the lost tapes and NASA wanting data for its new lunar missions, the agency ordered a search of its cosmic attics.

Nafzger hopes the hunt can be wrapped up in under six months with five workers and a bit of travel. Stored in more than 2,000 boxes, each tape lasts only 15 minutes. Everything from all 11 missions - from launch to splashdown - is on the videos, Lebar said.

There are 15 reels (three boxes) for just Apollo 11's stay on the moon, Lebar said.

"It's the whole history of the entire mission, of everything that went on," Lebar said.

And they're somewhere, but no one knows where.

Starting in 1970, the tapes were shipped to the National Archives' massive record center in Suitland, Md. And Lebar had hoped he hit pay dirt when he went to the record center, which he compared to the massive warehouse of long-forgotten boxes seen in the final scene of the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark."

But when Lebar got to the area the boxes were supposed to be, he found empty shelves. Later, he and Nafzger determined all the boxes were returned permanently to Goddard.

"They're not lost," Lebar said, "it's just we haven't gotten to the next step yet."

Once the tapes are found, they will be specially preserved before they are viewed, Nafzger said.

Former NASA chief historian Roger Launius, now space curator at the National Air and Space Museum, wants to see the new pictures but doesn't expect to be wowed.

"What will we learn that we don't know based on this new video? The chances are not that much," Launius said. "But as a historian, I'd love to have it."

So I guess that whole thing about faking the moon landing will live on.

[GOB]

those tapes are definitely something that should have been filed with everything else nasa did when they were wasting our tax dollars.

gg whoever was in charge of archiving

[woody]

bet all the conspiracy theorists soiled themselves when they read this...

i knew it...they did fake the moon landing. how convinient that they lost the original footage

[pysex]

I think they're next to the original footage of the Kennedy asassination.

[GOB]

I think they're next to the original footage of the Kennedy asassination.

as incredibly tasteless as this is, i'm just going to post the link

boom, headshot


edit:
also, http://ytmnd.com/list/?search=jfk

[Seeker]

this has been old news for over a year, and the mainstream news media is just now reporting it, ghey

anyways, if anyone were to find the tapes and study the high quality video you'd be able to instantly tell the landing was faked... they had to get rid of the evidence

i'm not saying we haven't been to the moon, i think that black u.s. projects went well before 1960s in reverse engineered nazi german saucers that we seized after WW2... the germans called their first model the Haunebu



http://www.eyepod.org/Nazi-Disc-Photos.html

here are the nazi plans on how to build a ufo, if you can read german:
http://www.ufoarea.com/pictures/haunebudoc.jpg
http://www.ufoarea.com/pictures/gerat_andromeda.jpg

[Seussninja]

this has been old news for over a year, and the mainstream news media is just now reporting it, ghey

anyways, if anyone were to find the tapes and study the high quality video you'd be able to instantly tell the landing was faked... they had to get rid of the evidence

i'm not saying we haven't been to the moon, i think that black u.s. projects went well before 1960s in reverse engineered nazi german saucers that we seized after WW2... the germans called their first model the Haunebu



http://www.eyepod.org/Nazi-Disc-Photos.html

here are the nazi plans on how to build a ufo, if you can read german:
http://www.ufoarea.com/pictures/haunebudoc.jpg
http://www.ufoarea.com/pictures/gerat_andromeda.jpg

what

[Hartmann]

The Nazis also had flying wing aircraft...

[woody]

the nazis also got their asses handed to em

[impala454]

this has been old news for over a year, and the mainstream news media is just now reporting it, ghey

anyways, if anyone were to find the tapes and study the high quality video you'd be able to instantly tell the landing was faked... they had to get rid of the evidence

i'm not saying we haven't been to the moon, i think that black u.s. projects went well before 1960s in reverse engineered nazi german saucers that we seized after WW2... the germans called their first model the Haunebu



http://www.eyepod.org/Nazi-Disc-Photos.html

here are the nazi plans on how to build a ufo, if you can read german:
http://www.ufoarea.com/pictures/haunebudoc.jpg
http://www.ufoarea.com/pictures/gerat_andromeda.jpg

this is such bullshit.. these photos are obviously fake

the german UFOs had cloaking devices, you can't see them







dumbass

[Mommy]

this is such bullshit.. these photos are obviously fake

the german UFOs had cloaking devices, you can't see them







dumbass

ban him, Lance. k thanx

[pysex]

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[Seeker]

this is such bullshit.. these photos are obviously fake

the german UFOs had cloaking devices, you can't see them







dumbass

they're only cloaked when you start up the gyroscopic plasma drive which shifts the craft out of the visible spectrum so it appears as just a bright light... a parked craft on the ground is still visible

duuurrrrrrr

[impala454]

they're only cloaked when you start up the gyroscopic plasma drive which shifts the craft out of the visible spectrum so it appears as just a bright light... a parked craft on the ground is still visible

duuurrrrrrr

hmm i thought the gyroscopic plasma drive was on those shitty old UFOs we sold to saddam hussein

[Seeker]

hmm i thought the gyroscopic plasma drive was on those shitty old UFOs we sold to saddam hussein

they are, i can't tell you about the new radiant energy syphoning capacitors ones or my inside source might get outed and/or killed