"Tapes containing the original, high-quality transmission of the Apollo 11 moon landing were wiped after being quietly shelved in an unmarked storage area by NASA. While other recordings of the historic 1969 mission survived, the revelation that at least some moon landing video disappeared has fueled wild conspiracies that NASA has been covering up what astronauts saw or even that the whole mission was faked."
"Dodd explained that the backup tapes were considered by NASA to be less critical since all the essential data, video, and radio signals were successfully transmitted to Houston and broadcast live on TV. The backup copies of Apollo 11's historic mission were mistakenly taped over when NASA reused older magnetic tapes due to a shortage of those specific film reels in the 1970s and 1980s."
"However, NASA still possesses thousands of hours of data proving the first moon landing really took place, including lower-quality versions of telemetry data, audio, and video from Houston's recordings. Dodd added that the space agency also still has shockingly clear 70 millimeter film from the cameras the Apollo astronauts used on the moon, a grade of film that is still used in IMAX movies 57 years later."
Original high-quality backup magnetic tapes of Apollo 11 contained raw transmissions and were stored but later wiped when NASA reused older tapes during shortages in the 1970s–1980s. The live mission feeds were already received by multiple ground stations, transmitted to Houston, and broadcast on television, so primary broadcast and Houston recordings remained intact. Modern upscaling techniques could have improved raw footage, but those capabilities were not anticipated when tapes were reused. NASA retains thousands of hours of telemetry, audio, and lower-quality video from Houston, plus extremely clear 70mm lunar camera film still comparable to IMAX-quality.
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