(((PING)))
Amazing...and these people build and fly rockets to space...better take better care of my tax money fellas.
Have they checked eBay listings?
I thought this was going to be about Bean ruining the camera...
Well, Congress had stopped funding the archive for our satellite data, too, and it took Dan Quayle (remember that he had the Space Policy Advisory Council) to step in and get it emergency funding so all our Landsat data weren't lost. Of course, with it being Dan Quayle saving the day, it got only about a column-inch in our paper.
These tapes are very large and not easily lost in a drawer, but being large, they take lots of room and could easily have been pitched for space (no pun intended). :-( Also, though, they are easy to forget about since they aren't used much now...so perhaps they are still out there. It's a shame they weren't already backed up to newer media, but much isn't.
I can attest to some of the antique equipment - much of which has no documentation and one-of-a-kind. I fixed that which could be fixed and recreated other equipment.
I dont think that aging equipment will be the problem. I do think that its highly probably that some NASA career "manager" had the tapes in a file cabinet for 20-30 years, then threw them away when he retired.
An evil ping, but somebody has to do it.
The will be found right next to the Ark of the Covenant in some forgotten government warehouse.
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Here's a still:
"We've lost the moon."
Shhh - don't tell anyone that I have the original unedited version of the tapes, produced on the back lot, Studio 5, of MGM. The actors, directors, film crew, and stage hands involved all mysteriously disappeared immediately after filming and have never been seen or heard from again.
- Art Bell
This 3-DVD set chronicles America's "one giant leap for mankind" from launch to landing with comprehensive footage from the film and videotape records of Apollo 11.Maybe they even are the borrowers of the missing tapes. At least someone is working to make history available to the public. Godspeed, Spacecraft Films!
Included in the set are the complete in-flight TV transmissions and onboard 16mm film footage, astronaut commentary from post-flight debriefings, the lunar landing with rare multi-track sound, spectacular multi-angle launch footage, along with pre-mission interviews, training and preparation footage, Saturn V stacking and rollout, pad operations and more.
If they find it, maybe we will actually hear Armstrong say, "Good luck Mr. Gorski!"
Capricorn 1
Ask Greaseball Richardson to look behind the Xerox machine at Los Alamos!
While making a digitalized copy may be wise to insure against complete loss of the origina l, in the past we've seen far too great a reliance on the digital copy, with a tendency then to neglect the analog original. Don't let that happen!
As time goes on, we're gradually able to extract more and more improved images from old magenetic tape. Such later extractions are often far better than earlier extractions. If we discard or neglect the original, or equipment to read it, we can have a bad case of buyer's remorse.
Preserve your analog assets!
HF
Next, we're going to hear Area 51 has misplaced the alien bodies from the Roswell crash.