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The search for Vintage Apollo Space mission tapes

Posted Nov 05, 2006 at 07:03AM by Ian C. Listed in: News, NASA Tags: NASA, apollo, Australia
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Space.com reports that a whole batch of Vintage Apollo space mission tapes fount at a university in Western Australia aren't what they needed. In operation scientist John Sarkissian's own words: "These aren't the tapes we're looking for."

Apparently the one-inch magnetic tapes recorded at the Carnavaron station in Western Australia contain data from Apollo 11's Early Apollo Surface Experiments Package (EASEP) – a set of scientific instruments placed at the Apollo 11 landing site by astronauts.

What Sarkissian and his team are looking for is the Apollo 11 Slow-Scan Television tapes. The lost tapes that could very well give the world a clearer crisper view of the first human explorers on the Moon from three decades back.

The SSTV recordings were of better quality than the scan-converted imagery that the global audience witnessed.

The search for the lost tapes hasn't proven easy. Budget cuts at NASA in the post-Apollo years entailed that a whole lot of day-to-day records were discarded. Jobs and entire divisions that dealt with data records were eliminated. Moreover, since there wasn't an official requirement to archive data, it is likely that the SSTV tape could have gone the same way that many old television programs did: TV stations degaussed the tapes and reused them.

Still the experts are determined and are hopeful that they will find the fabled tapes. Bill Wood, a retired Apollo tracking station engineer says: "we are running down every lead."

What is it about lost tapes that gets conspiracy theorists all a-twitter?

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   by lol (Unregistered) - 2006-11-06
 » lol again
This is pathetic to be honest. The first time a human being sets foot on a body outside Earth, and they threw away / lost the tapes? Bull*****. They are there, the question is just why "we, the public" dont get to see them, as with most other space data. I mean we got hubble taking pics all the time and hundreds of huge telescopes on earth funded by goverments and research institutes. Where are all the pictures?? I mean honestly, how many pictures of the crab nebula have you seen? ive seen like 3 different maby, at like 300x200 resolution. Where are the high def pictures? Where is the other stuff?


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   Re: deanspeed (Unregistered) - 2006-11-09
 » search harder
you are looking in the wrong place... i have lots of high def space/nebula pics on my pc.
   by . (Unregistered) - 2006-11-06
 » .
they couldnt find the tapes they're looking for because... there are no tapes! surprise, surprise


   Re: gibosdog (Unregistered) - 2006-11-14
 » ummm...
There was No Moon walk.Back in the day we didn't have the computers and brains to go to the Moon.
It was all stage....USA lie to say they were the first to go to Moon..... thats why they cant find the tapes,because if they find the tapes you will see that it was fake.

I dont think we can even go up there now.

Prove me wrong.


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