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Posted by: jeremytoday 1 year, 8 months ago

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Although the search continues, NASA officials acknowledge that missing, high-quality tapes of the first moonwalk may be lost forever.

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    Natfan1 year, 8 months ago

    Maybe it's because it was hoax?

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      LeftTurn1 year, 8 months ago

      While even some Nasa scientists believe we never went to the moon because of technology, and what we didn't know about massive radiation waves and it's effects in space beyond our atmosphere, I believe there is a very good chance we actually did go to the moon, but we never taped the real episode on video, because we couldn't transmit it back to earth, basically we didn't know how to do that at the time, that far. I think we'd have problems today even with the help of satellites.

      Nixon decided it was in the worlds best interest that we saw everything as it should have been, and after he learned that we actually couldn't film it live and send a feed back to earth in his dying hour, in short, his cronies suggested and decided on film maker Stanley Kubrick to film the whole sequence as it would unfold, to show a very anxious nation if in fact video transmissions didn't work, and especially the Russians, we needed to prove we were there and we beat the them to it proof positive.

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      Bruedaddy1 year, 8 months ago

      you're funny.

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      coreyspring1 year, 8 months ago

      I'm appalled and saddened and yet somehow, I'm not surprised.

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        BrianJJohnson1 year, 8 months ago

        i think it would be great to send another mission to the moon.

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          MajJohn1 year, 8 months ago

          Osama has them!

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            Bruedaddy1 year, 8 months ago

            curious, what DO they think of space travel in general...?

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            BIONICDIVECON1 year, 8 months ago

            Moon Tapes Missing now come on with all the top secret crap they have, and they loose a couple of video tapes?

            That's pretty sad

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              gospel-truth1 year, 8 months ago

              I WONDER IF THE TAPES WERE LEFT ON THE MOON.

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                gospel-truth1 year, 8 months ago

                Maybe the man in the moon has them.

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                  JohnChasWebb1 year, 8 months ago

                  Ebay - !!!! ORIGINAL U.S. MOON LANDING TAPES !!!!

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                    jdhatl1 year, 8 months ago

                    the moon is a balloon

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                      TruthDetector1 year, 8 months ago

                      I am a contractor. I did several projects at NASA at Moffet Field in Northern California. I was working once and this one man was looking at me with what I saw was a condensating look. I asked him what he did. He said he was an "Engineer". I asked again, "So what do you do?" Once again he said he was an "Engineer". It took a while, but I finaly got it out of him. "Facilities Engineer". (He cleaned the bathrooms). Guess how much he made with full benefits. Everyone at NASA is an "Engineer". Welfare workers with a title. We are lucky that one of them even noticed that the tapes were missing! I have other stories about what a joke that place is, if anyone cares to know.

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                        mbkijb1 year, 8 months ago

                        Indeed, Ebay! Everything goes on Ebay.....

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                          Bruedaddy1 year, 8 months ago

                          Plus, I odubt they were "high quality"

                          VHS at best, which by now, even if properly stored are degraded.

                          now , IF they had betamax back then, well Maybe just maybe...

                          I just hope someone digitized them.

                          I know some stock footage libraries have some of the footage. maybe they can sell it back to nasa....

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                            Webreader1 year, 8 months ago

                            Somebody probably has a cassette copy(s) of these tapes in their attic or basement, and if found it will be deteriorating. Someone will try to restore it. The stock footage you are talking about is most likely from the feed we've all seen broadcast, but you never know . . .! Keep checking eBay.

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                            gospel-truth1 year, 8 months ago

                            Here's a ("BARREL") of laughs

                            The tapes are hidden in a safe place. Find Jimmy Hoffa and you'll find the tapes.

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                              Webreader1 year, 8 months ago

                              It's SAD:

                              That someone like leftturn still believes that "we never went" to the moon even though scientists debunk one-by-one the points made. Of course this story will stimulate more discussion of a "hoax."

                              It's SAD:

                              That probably some NASA honcho on a clean up binge gave an order and workers just blindly followed it and threw all kinds of stuff, including these tapes and who knows what else, in the dumpsters. (see truthdetectors' comment)

                              It's SAD:

                              That the public perception of NASA, from the fatal accidents on the ground and in the air and all the stories which have come out about its culture, are fed anew by this story. I'm sure that there are very passionate and competant engineers and scientists who really care about science and space exploration working at NASA, but such complex and expensive undertakings also require so much support that mere mortals like the rest of us also get involved. con't

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                                Webreader1 year, 8 months ago

                                cont: But it can be HAPPY! After all that, it is still absolutely amazing what these projects have successfully done, and what we have learned about the universe. We can also learn that even at these lofty levels, human beings are not perfect.

                                I still think these tapes may be found, probably after we have forgotten about this story.

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