Friday, July 17, 2009

NASA clearest videos of 1969 moonwalk - Apollo 11 mission

Thursday (16 July 2009) NASA released the restored clearest videos of the 1969 Apollo 11 moonwalk. The release celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first manned landing on the moon. Apollo 11 spacecraft lifted off on July 16, 1969 and the astronauts stepped on the moon on 20 July 1969. The crew was formed by Neil Alden Armstrong, Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr and Michael Collins, the first two astronauts landed on moon while the last one orbited the Earth satellite aboard the Command Module. Besides the sharpest footage of the original moonwalk, NASA released also "missing images" or never seen before images of the Apollo 11 mission.
One important aspect is that NASA lost the original video of the moon landing live TV transmission, the released video being reconstructed by Hollywood after NASA gathered four copies. The American Agency declared (embarrased) that the original footage was deleted on reason of tape re-use.

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