Posted on 02/13/2026 3:52:03 PM PST by Twotone
Tapes containing the original, high-quality transmission of the Apollo 11 moon landing were wiped after being quietly shelved in an unmarked storage area by NASA.
While other recordings of the historic 1969 mission survived, the revelation that at least some moon landing video disappeared has fueled wild conspiracies that NASA has been covering up what astronauts saw or even that the whole mission was faked.
Now, the truth about these 'erased' tapes has been revealed by Tim Dodd, better known as the 'Everyday Astronaut' on YouTube, who said the lost footage was only a set of backup magnetic tapes containing the raw transmission from space.
Dodd explained that the backup tapes were considered by NASA to be less critical since all the essential data, video, and radio signals were successfully transmitted to Houston and broadcast live on TV.
The backup copies of Apollo 11's historic mission were mistakenly taped over when NASA reused older magnetic tapes due to a shortage of those specific film reels in the 1970s and 1980s.
Speaking on the Danny Jones Podcast, Dodd said no one at the time anticipated future technology would be able to upscale or enhance the resolution (upres) of the raw footage for better quality, which is now possible today.
However, NASA still possesses thousands of hours of data proving the first moon landing really took place, including lower-quality versions of telemetry data, audio, and video from Houston's recordings.
Dodd added that the space agency also still has shockingly clear 70 millimeter film from the cameras the Apollo astronauts used on the moon, a grade of film that is still used in IMAX movies 57 years later.
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In the scheme of things celestial, 238,000 miles is pretty short. The magnitude of the numbers does not affect the mathematical techniques or accuracy. Clearly you are math impaired.
Spacecraft-Based Navigation Spacecraft-borne navigation measurement tends more to optical frequency direction measurement rather than the radio frequency direct ranging that is so accurate for ground tracking. For relatively close work, however, direct ranging using radio frequencies with rendezvous or landing radars becomes possible, albeit necessary. But further from the planets and other targets, direct measurement of range or range rate, or the use of radio frequencies has not appeared attractive to the designers due to the weight and power penalties. Spacecraft onboard directional measurements are those made to the near bodies... the sun, moon, earth, and other planets. The stars provide no position data because of their extreme distances. But because of this distance they are most excellent references against which to measure directions to the nearer bodies.
In a sense, then, onboard navigation is performed by observing the near bodies relative to the background stars. This can be done indirectly by measuring the angles sequentially from a gyro stabilized base to the stars and the near body. Alternately a direct and simultaneous measurement of the angle between a reference star and the near body with a suitable sextant-like instrument avoids an accumulation of errors with which the former sequential technique must cope. The ancient sextant, updated and refined with a suitable telescope for image resolution and with a precision angle readout of the deflecting mirror, can provide in a reasonable size an accurate measure of the angle between a feature of a near body and a star superimposed upon that feature in the field of view.
The "feature" alluded to above is some distinct point of known coordinates on the planet to which the direction is being measured. The center of the planetary disk naturally comes to mind, but identifiable surface landmark features and horizons which can be related to planet coordinates are easier and more accurate for visual use, particularly under crescent illumination.
Post 202 was supposed to be directed to you. You would enjoy learning the mechanics of Apollo navigation.
You and me both. My God! Those are proudly ignorant people.
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