Truth about NASA's 'missing' moon tapes revealed after 57 years

The Daily Mail UK ^ | February 10, 2026 | Chris Melore

[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.

---

TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: 911truthers; apollo11; apollo8; flatearthers; missingtapes; moonlanding; moontapes; nasa

[Republican Wildcat]

People who think we landed on the moon and filmed it are the same people who think Building 7 killed itself.

Landing on the moon is a historical fact. Actually occurred more than once, not just with Apollo 11. It is embarrassing to suggest otherwise.

Building 7 fell because it was on fire for many hours - when a building in on fire for several hours, its structure continually weakens until it collapses. That is simple physics. The building was clearly ablaze for a very long period of time, so it would have been redundant to have done something several hours later to cause what was going to happen at that time anyway. It is embarrassing to suggest otherwise.

[Bulwyf]

It’s one of those rare birds. Really great aircraft. Were you in the airforce or going for fun rides?

[Ezekiel]

A lot of material gets warehoused without any sort of catalogue.

[Celtic Conservative]

Oh lord the conspiracy theorists are coming out of the woodwork tonight.

CC

[WinstonSmith1984]

I used to test airplanes... I guess anyone who fly’s an airplane it testing them... until they land... :)

[Bulwyf]

Haha!! Well, I am pretty certain we’d get along. I ended up doing 3 tours overseas, hence why I’ve been on team “paying attention” for some time. I plan on taking family for a trip south hopefully soon, I’ll have to swing by for coffee and a shooting of the breeze heh.

Alternatively, my ranch isn’t far from the route to Alaska if you’re going up. My doors are always open for real Americans. They know who they are.

[central_va]

If you think that being a test pilot gives anyone denying lunar landings credibility you’d be wrong. Your are still insane.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

The Library in Alexandria burned during first the Roman Invasion, then, a second time when the books were burned by Islamic conquerors who used it as fuel to heat their baths.

Here is a Tibetian Libary that has managed to survive since established in the 1200s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakya_Monastery#/media/File:Library,_Sakya_Monastery,_Tibet_(5).jpg

By Richard Mortel - https://www.flickr.com/photos/prof_richard/29863010798/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=88002796

"Sakya Monastery houses a huge library of as many as 84,000 books on traditional stacks 60 metres (200 ft) long and 10 metres (33 ft) high. Most of them are Buddhist scriptures, although they also include works of literature, history, philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, agriculture, and art.[10] One scripture weighs more than 500 kilograms (1,100 lb), the heaviest in the world. The collection also includes many volumes of palm-leaf manuscripts, which are well-preserved due to the region's arid climate.[4] In 2003, the library was examined by the Tibet Academy of Social Sciences.[11] The monastery started to digitize the library in 2011. As of 2022, all books have been cataloged, and more than 20% have been fully digitized. Monks now maintain a digital library for all scanned books and documents.[12]"

[WinstonSmith1984]

You probably believe Joe Biden got 81 million legitimate votes... Good luck... the truth isn’t for everyone... and that makes me sad. Pro tip... the Government is lying to you. The earth is round, that doesn’t mean building 7 killed itself. Stanly Kubrick was a genius, so was George Carlin.

Sincerely, good luck.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“ We have so many “conspiracies” that now seem to be true. It’s hard to believe anything from our gov’t anymore.”

Thousands of people worked on the moon landings.
They wouldn’t have stayed silent .

Also Russia would have tracked our spacecraft and they were huge rivals .
They would have said something .

[Empire_of_Liberty]

No.

[JimRed]

Building 7 had catastrophic damage which resulted in its collapse. Prove me wrong.

[sgt_lau]

*The group of normal people?*

Most assuredly.

[WinstonSmith1984]

So... prove a negative? Weird. If you are honest use your eyes... if you are here as a zionista for the one world Government... you are suicidal. I don’t think you are an honest actor. I think you have an agenda. I love this forum because I know a bunch of intel operatives and coopted people for the NWO hang out. That said here is all the proof you need. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=building+7+collapse+video
Stop taking the DEADLY COVID JAB... they will kill you and your family. Try and be a good person.

good luck

[NorthMountain]

I think the D-Day landings were fake.

I think the "moon landing was fake" crowd is fake.

And NO, I'm not being sarcastic. Some of them are 'bots, some of them are dupes, and some of them are liars. NONE of them actually know what they're talking about.

[Disambiguator]

Apparently the entire Monty Python collection was saved from destruction by the BBC by Terry Jones.

[smileyface]

“Pull it!”

[WinstonSmith1984]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwZb2mqId0A

It’s a great story.. inspiring... lifts up the nation...

It is also fake and gay. The video anyway.

The lies you have been told... Building 7... Barack Obama... Osama Bin Laden... so fake and gay...

I fell for it all for most of my life... Then when they tried to kill most of us with COVID and the deadly jab... it opened my eyes.

Good luck fellas... if you know the difference between a man and a woman... you might have a chance.

Just please stop gaslighting folks... no one is buying it anymore.

[Captain Peter Blood]

After reading Bart Sibrel’s book Moon Man I am not sure we were even capable off going to the moon. He raises a lot of interesting questions on this.

(1) Going to and from the Moon through the Van Allen Radiation Belt

(2) Having enough fuel to even leave Earth Orbit to go to the Moon and get back. Von Braun said initially that they would need to send up extra rockets of fuel to even be able to blast out of earth’s orbit.

(3) Then there were the Space Suits and could they actually work on the Moon.

(4) My favorite how could the Lunar module possible have blasted off the moon to get back in orbit to hook with Command module. The more you look that thing it is an absolutely flimsy piece of equipment. Anyone wonder how they could have possibly loaded the Lunar Rover onto that thing and were was the power source to run the air conditioner and heater for the extreme temps for 3 days, they claim they used car batteries, well if you can;t change them they run out of power.

So many technical questions and no enough answers. Why has no other country gone to the moon, especially the Russian’s?

[Captain Peter Blood]

Yes but this was special video and the machine that could play that video was dismantled many years ago.