Lowry Digital completed the full moonwalk restoration project in late 2009. They also partially released newly enhanced footage obtained during the search. At a 2009 news conference in Washington, D.C., the research team released its findings regarding the tapes' disappearance. These visual elements were processed in 2009, as part of a NASA-approved restoration project of the first moonwalk. Īlthough the researchers never found the telemetry tapes, they did discover the best visual quality NTSC videotapes as well as Super 8 movie film taken of a video monitor in Australia, showing the SSTV transmission before it was converted. The researchers concluded that the tapes containing the raw unprocessed Apollo 11 SSTV signal were erased and reused by NASA in the early 1980s, following standard procedure at the time. If copies of the original SSTV format tapes were to be found, more modern digital technology could make a higher-quality conversion, yielding better images than those originally seen. The research team conducted a multi-year investigation in the hopes of finding the most pristine and detailed video images of the moonwalk. The search was sparked when several still photographs appeared in the late 1990s that showed the visually superior raw SSTV transmission on ground-station monitors. Ī team of retired NASA employees and contractors tried to find the tapes in the early 2000s but was unable to do so. In the early 1980s, NASA's Landsat program was facing a severe data tape shortage and it is likely the tapes were erased and reused at this time. As the real-time broadcast worked and was widely recorded, preservation of the backup video was not deemed a priority in the years immediately following the mission. Many of these low-quality recordings remain intact. At the time, the NTSC broadcast was recorded on many videotapes and kinescope films. The moonwalk's converted video signal was broadcast live around the world on J(2:56 UTC). To broadcast the SSTV transmission on standard television, NASA ground receiving stations performed real-time scan conversion to the NTSC television format. The data tapes were used to record all transmitted data (video as well as telemetry) for backup. The Apollo 11 missing tapes were those that were recorded from Apollo 11's slow-scan television (SSTV) telecast in its raw format on telemetry data tape at the time of the first Moon landing in 1969 and subsequently lost. The original slow-scan television signal from the Apollo TV camera, photographed at Honeysuckle Creek on July 21, 1969
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