Archives failure: NASA loses moon landing original video
From Eric Ederer via Red Tape
The 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 moon walk, seen by millions of television viewers on July 20, 1969, is among the transmissions that NASA has failed to turn up in a year of searching, spokesman Grey Hautaloma said.
NASA has retained copies of the TV broadcasts and offers several clips on its Web site. But those images are of lower quality than the originals stored on the missing magnetic tapes.
Archives and museums are not just for teaching history; NASA is also going back to museums to see original Apollo rocket parts (Washington Post/AP, Aug 15 2006) to get ideas and examples for engineers who are building the next generation of spacecraft.
UPDATE: also seen on Boing Boing.
(this should go in a government documents / archives category too)
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