Posted on 09/28/2010 7:47:29 PM PDT by Redcitizen
SYDNEY (AFP) – Long-lost footage of Neil Armstrong descending the ladder of the Apollo 11 lunar module will be screened in public for the first time in Sydney next week, a prominent astronomer told AFP.
The footage runs for a few minutes and is considered to be some of the best footage of the historic 1969 moonwalk, but the film was lost in archives for many years and was badly damaged when found, said John Sarkissian.
It depicts the first few minutes of Armstrong's descent which was recorded in Australia as NASA was still scrambling for a signal, showing a far clearer image than was initially screened worldwide.
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I’ll second that.
I can tell you here in FL they are none too happy with the space program being nixed.
Obama has no idea how much he is going to lose here, or perhaps he does. The Space program is a place of personal pride to FL - it is a unique and special industry that reminds Floridians we do have some high tech industries.
How incompetent to you have to be to “lose” original footage of man’s very first walk on the moon? You would think that would have been treated like the Crown Jewels. Just more evidence of the efficiency and care of government.
Great! Now we need an English translation.
I say we should go back, and get the flag that supposedly was left,....half of the world doubts that the USA ever arrived on the Moon.
It was the Aussies’ film, taken from independent reception of the moon landing video. Though why Americans didn’t immediately buy copies, is odd.
FL voted for Obama and Bill Nelson so let em eat cake. I live north of there and they always had their big NASA govt checks. Waving their NASA money at the locals.
NASA was good when the Germans ran it.
I saw a report the other day that mentioned that data logs from the Pioneer spacecraft were saved from the trash.
Its a big step backward to lose the shuttles. My opinion is that we should be on at least the 3rd generation shuttle with a sizeable fleet by now.
It wasn’t really lost. The Australian recording was so much better because the US recievers or something weren’t dialed in correctly for a clear picture, we got the blurry version.
Not my area of FL.
I don’t have sympathy for the blue areas, though.
“half of the world doubts that the USA ever arrived on the Moon.’
That’s because half of the world doesn’t own a good telescope.
The US was out of line-of-sight or something and we got our feed from Australia but the reception device was not set right and we saw the blurry feed.
It was intended for the TV audience, and was not considered part of the mission record, which in itself is quite extensive, and of course available on the internet.
Have you looked at any of it?
No, it was the property of NASA. The station was part of NASA’s deep space network.
“Obama has no idea how much he is going to lose here, or perhaps he does. “
Intentional deconstruction of American Exceptionalism.
The video from the moon was Slow Scan Television (SSTV) at 10 frames per second, and 320 lines of video.
US Broadcast television (NTSC) is 29.97 frames per second, with 525 lines of video.
The video from the moon when through a very crude scan converter before it could be aired on US television. That is why the video we know is so crappy looking.
These “lost” films are 8mm home movies of the SSTV monitor at the Australia tracking station before it was scan converted to NTSC. Hence they look sharper, with more detail, than the crappy 1969 era scan conversion looks.
It says a lot when shooting 8mm home movies off of a televison screen is considered “good.”
The space program brings pride to real Americans, American pride is definitely NOT part of the Obama/Soros agenda, quite the opposite.
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