Houston, We Erased The Apollo 11 Tapes : NPR

By Jenifer Baldwin on July 17, 2009 6:07 AM | | Comments (0)

by Nell Greenfieldboyce

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

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