Never-before-seen video footage of the Apollo 11 to screen this week

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New moonwalk footage another big step

    * From: AFP, AAP
    * September 28, 2010 7:41PM

Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, poses for fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong during their 1969 moonwalk / AP Source: AP

NEVER-before-seen video footage of the Apollo 11 moonwalk discovered in Australia will be shown at an awards ceremony in Sydney next week.

The footage of mission commander Neil Armstrong descending the ladder of the lunar module will be shown at the Australian Geographic Society Awards next Wednesday, Australian Geographic said in a statement.


Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/new-moonwalk-footage-another-big-step/story-e6frfrnr-1225931146326#ixzz10p9sO7zW

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WTH??? didn't NASA tell some years ago that the films were all in bad shapes and impossible to retrieve ?

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Houston, We Erased The Apollo 11 Tapes
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106637066

July 16, 2009

An exhaustive, three-year search for some tapes that contained the original footage of the Apollo 11 moonwalk has concluded that they were probably destroyed during a period when NASA was erasing old magnetic tapes and reusing them to record satellite data.

"We're all saddened that they're not there. We all wish we had 20-20 hindsight," says Dick Nafzger, a TV specialist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, who helped lead the search team.