NASA erased Apollo11 moon footage to reuse the videotape, Hollywood restores it

[tangent4ronpaul]

With the originals gone who can even be sure what format it was originally recorded on?

The AU tapes are original.

If NASA really wanted to put it to rest they could release the exact landing coordinates and challenge any country to send a probe up there to take a look.

Apollo Landing Sites

Apollo Home

Apollo 11 - Mare Tranquillitatis
Lunar Landing Time 4:17:40 p.m. EDT, July 20, 1969
Landing Site Coordinates 0.67408° N latitude, 23.47297° E longitude

Apollo 12 - Oceanus Procellarum
Lunar Landing Time 01:54:35 a.m. EST, November 19, 1969
Landing Site Coordinates 3.01239° S latitude, 23.42157° W longitude

Apollo 14 - Fra Mauro
Lunar Landing Time 4:18 a.m. EST, February 5, 1971
Landing Site Coordinates 3.64530° S latitude, 17.47136° W longitude

Apollo 15 - Hadley/Apennines
Lunar Landing Time 6:16 p.m. EDT, July 30, 1971
Landing Site Coordinates 26.13222° N latitude, 3.63386° E longitude

Apollo 16 - Descartes
Lunar Landing Time 9:24 p.m. EST, April 20, 1972
Landing Site Coordinates 8.97301° S latitude, 15.49812° E longitude

Apollo 17 - Taurus-Littrow
Lunar Landing Time 19:54:57 GMT, December 11, 1972
Landing Site Coordinates 20.19080° N latitude, 30.77168° E longitude



Sources:
APOLLO PROGRAM FLIGHT SUMMARY REPORT,
APOLLO MISSIONS AS201 - APOLLO 16, June 1972

Davies and Colvin (2000) "Lunar Coordinates in the regions of Apollo landers" American Geophysical Union, V.105:E8 pp.20277-20280.

More Information:
The Apollo Landing Sites
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/slidesets/apollo.html
This resource describes the landing sites from a geologic perspective.

http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/imagery/apollo/landsites.htm

I bet if you looked, you could find Hubble pics of the landing sites.

-t

 

[acptulsa]

As I recall, Hubble cannot be focused on something that close. Outside its focal range (or rather, inside of it).

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

As I recall, Hubble cannot be focused on something that close. Outside its focal range (or rather, inside of it).

VERY GOOD POINT!

Still, a terrestrial observatory should be able to image them - or the space station.

-t

 

[idirtify]

Good grief some of you make it sound like it was in the early days of film technology and that NASA was some low-budget film company.

 

[pcosmar]

With the originals gone who can even be sure what format it was originally recorded on? If you were going to stage it you would want the quality to be as poor as possible to prevent any detailed look into what is actually happening, and that is all we have. Doesn't exactly instill trust for me, and I would like to believe it. I grew up building models of the Apollo rockets because I was so fascinated with the accomplishment. Now I would like to believe it just because I am tired of being labeled as a nut case for everything else, it's just not easy to believe. Eventually someone will go investigate the landing sites and put this to rest. If NASA really wanted to put it to rest they could release the exact landing coordinates and challenge any country to send a probe up there to take a look.

I watched every launch from Mercury thru Apollo. Glued to the TV. Watched the moon landing, whole family in front of the TV,
We didn't have a color tv for another 5 years.

Do you remember when "pocket" calculators cost $500 to $600, and wouldn't fit in your pocket?

 

[Kraig]

I watched every launch from Mercury thru Apollo. Glued to the TV. Watched the moon landing, whole family in front of the TV,
We didn't have a color tv for another 5 years.

Do you remember when "pocket" calculators cost $500 to $600, and wouldn't fit in your pocket?

No I'm too young for that, I am familiar with how large computers were in those days though, and how a calculator now can be more powerful.

 

[jkr]

i smells a rat...

 

[pacelli]

http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~durda/Apollo/landing_sites.html

While you can't see any of the hardware left on the Moon (seeing one of the lunar rovers from Earth would be like trying to see a grain of sand on a beach while flying high overhead in a jet airliner!), you can identify some of the craters, mountains, and other geological features near the landing sites. Most of the images you will see while exploring this page were taken from lunar orbit and are much clearer than Earthbound views, but many of the features you will see are visible in a backyard telescope with good seeing.

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~durda/Apollo/landing_sites.html

While you can't see any of the hardware left on the Moon (seeing one of the lunar rovers from Earth would be like trying to see a grain of sand on a beach while flying high overhead in a jet airliner!), you can identify some of the craters, mountains, and other geological features near the landing sites. Most of the images you will see while exploring this page were taken from lunar orbit and are much clearer than Earthbound views, but many of the features you will see are visible in a backyard telescope with good seeing.

And yet we are able to track the trajectory of thousands of bolts, screws and other space junk in orbit... in order to prevent their unintentional "meeting" with an operational sat.

Adaptive optics ROCK!

-t

 

[LATruth]

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

-t

 

[Mini-Me]

The preferred method of disposing of magnetic media that has contained TS or above data is to collect it in a vault till there is enough, then go out, dig a pit, stack it up and cover it up with several hundred pounds of thermite. Then lite...

> "thinks that methods like that are overkill"

uh, hu...

There are DoD specs that state 7 overwrites are fine for Secret and below data.

I have been to auctions selling off bank equipment where the computers were set up to show they worked. ALL customer data including balances, Addresses, SS#'s, etc were NOT SCRUBBED! Then there are the many commercial and gvmt cases of laptops being stolen that contained tens of thouseands of personal data records of citizens.

Personally, I like the hyper-paranoid approach of the government.

-t

Well yeah, if you don't scrub them at all, everything's still going to be on there...but that doesn't mean you need to scrub them over and over. That said, I understand where the incentive for overkill comes from, because it can't really hurt except for wasting some time.