Newly Restored Video of Apollo 11 Moonwalk - 1:36 PM -
Categories: Space NASA has released newly restored video of the
Apollo 11 Moon landing to celebrate the 40th anniversary of this
feat. Fifteen key moments are available, including Neil
Armstrong’s first step on the Moon and Buzz Aldrin and Armstrong
planting the American flag. The videos are part of a larger
project to restore more video of the moonwalk. A team of Apollo-
era engineers who were responsible for the live broadcast of the
moonwalk in 1969 gathered the best available video of the event
from around the world and worked with experts who specialize in
restoring old Hollywood classics. In 1969, the live broadcast
was recorded, along with biomedical, voice and other data, onto
one-inch telemetry tapes as a backup if the live feed failed.
But those tapes were lost, and a three-year hunt for them was
unsuccessful. So engineers were left with recordings of the TV
broadcast, which lost a lot of resolution as they traveled from
the Moon to ground-based