Where on Earth are moon tapes?
Aug. 16, 2006. 06:26 AM


WASHINGTON—The U.S. government has misplaced the original recording of the first moon landing, including astronaut Neil Armstrong's famous "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," a NASA spokesman said yesterday.

Armstrong's famous space walk, seen by millions of viewers on July 20, 1969, is among transmissions that NASA has failed to turn up in a year of searching, spokesman Grey Hautaloma said.

"We haven't seen them for quite a while. We've been looking for over a year and they haven't turned up," Hautaloma said.

The tapes also contain data about the health of the astronauts and the condition of the spacecraft. In all, some 700 boxes of transmissions from the Apollo lunar missions are missing, he said.

"I wouldn't say we're worried — we've got all the data. Everything on the tapes we have in one form or another," Hautaloma said.

NASA has retained copies of the television broadcasts and offers several clips on its website.

But those images are of lower quality than the originals stored on the missing magnetic tapes.

Because NASA's equipment was not compatible with TV technology of the day, the original transmissions had to be displayed on a monitor and re-shot by a TV camera for broadcast.

Hautaloma said it is possible the tapes will be unplayable even if they are found, because they have degraded significantly over the years — a problem common to magnetic tape and other types of recordable media.

The material was held by the National Archives in Washington, but returned to NASA sometime in the late 1970s, he said.

"We're looking for paperwork to see where they last were," he said.

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JEEZ how can missplace something as important as that!

Very carefully. I think they were stolen for someone's own personal entertainment.

Maybe, we don't know yet. That would be really funny though.

Hmmm...I bet Michael Jackson stole them....lol. It is so much fun to bash Michael Jackson....would Michael Jackson melt if he got to close to a fire?

My bf makes michael jokes all the time so I'm used to it. They are quite funny too.

Let's hear some. I could use some new material...

Well, my bf and I were at a hotel with 40 other kids and about 6 adults. He was in a room with this kid and their bathroom door didn't look, He said that the hotel was michael's hotel and that he rigged it all. Another one is that michael can not be shot because his plastic surgery deflects it.

Lol....Bad marriage: Angelina "Adopter" Jolie and Michael "Molester" Jackson.

That is funny, could I tell my boyfriend that one?

I don't care....it was completely random.....I'm out...

Hey, some people I know don't like other people telling their jokes.

That's weird...almost as bad as the guy who doesn't like music...I still can't get over that...

Thats the same guy!

Whoa...weird.....I use "..." too much.

Yeah it's really weird. Also, he went through an entire school day just saying "oink". That scared me considering I was trapped in a bus seat with him.

I suggest a Loony Hills. It's a mental institution. I heard their mashed potatoes are choice.

why did micheal jackson go to Kmart?

why did micheal go to K-mart?

because boys pants were 1/2 off.

That is so wrong, but so funny.

Oh my gosh, that has to be the funniest thing I've heard in weeks...sad, but true. I do not live near humor.

All of my guy friends are really weird in the sense that all they know how to do is crack rude and wrong jokes.

i hate racist jokes.

I don't mean rude as in racist but as in dirty.

yes, but no. racist as in "jewish, or african america"

yeah i don't like them either.

Me too.



Unfortunately, the urge is too much for a guy and he must make dirty jokes to get by....wow that sounded wrong...I did not mean that in a wrong way.

yup, ive been there to.

I've been down the same path, especially with my guy friends.

It's a very shallow path to take...

yes, ye be right. but at times must be done.

Yep it is, but i get along with the guys in my school better than the girls. The girls are mostly preps except for 7 maybe.

when ever the girls here me they hit me in the stomach. kinda hurts.

edit

this kinda got off topic fast.

Yeah, I hate it when other girls hit guys in the stomach, it's really stupid to hit people. Unless they cheat on you or something like that.

Urrrghhh...if there is one thing that irritates me more than HerLoss, it's a prep.

I agree with you preps are really annoying.

You know, I bet it was a prep who stole those moon tapes!

Just another reason to dislike preps...great thinking Mynck.

Why didn't I think of that? Good one Mynck!

I personally, believe we did not land on the moon when we claimed we did. They just destroyed the evidence of the fake moon landing.

Seriously? Why would NASA fake it?

The soviets were the first into space. We wanted to outdo them, so we faked it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_moon_l...oax_accusations

Those preps are always up to no good.

yeah, I bet they were from my school, the home of all evil preps!

We should lead a non-prep revolution against their homebase. Break out the torches and pitchforks.

That would be fun!

Heck yeah. They're so dumb, they wouldn't know what hit them.

yeah, they do REALLY stupid stuff. and ii mean REALLY.

Yup. Maybe if we could encourage the stupid things, they might completely wipe themselves out off the face of the planet...it would be worth a try...