Long-lost footage of Apollo 11 moon landing to be screened

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Long-lost footage of Neil Armstrong descending the ladder of the Apollo 11 lunar module will be screened in public for the first time in Sydney next week, according to a prominent astronomer.
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E."Buzz" Aldrin erecting the US flag on the moon. Photo: NASA

The video runs for a few minutes and is considered to be some of the best footage of the historic 1969 moonwalk, but the film was lost in archives for many years and was badly damaged when found, said John Sarkissian.

It depicts the first few minutes of Armstrong?s descent which was recorded in australia as Nasa was still scrambling for a signal, showing a far clearer image than was initially screened worldwide.

Telescopes in remote Australia played a key role in the Apollo 11 mission, including provision of the television signal, after Armstrong decided to attempt the moonwalk early, putting the United States just beyond the horizon. A fictional account of Australia?s role in the moon landing was the subject of a film in 2000 called The Dish, starring Sam Neill.
Mr Sarkissian, an historian and astronomer in charge of the Australian side of the recordings restoration project, said the unseen minutes were the ?best quality of Armstrong descending the ladder.?
?NASA were using the Goldstone (California) station signal, which had its settings wrong, but in the signals being received by the Australian stations you can actually see Armstrong.?
?In what people have seen before you can barely see Armstrong at all, you can see something black ? that was his leg.?
The segment which runs for ?just a few minutes? will be screened at the awards night of Australian Geographic magazine next Wednesday, at which Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin will be the chief guest.
?When we heard Buzz was going to be the guest of honour we thought 'what a great opportunity?,? Mr Sarkissian said.
The Armstrong footage, which has only previously been seen by Apollo veterans and other members of the astronomy community, would form part of a highlights reel of restored, digitised moonwalk footage at the awards, he added.
There was a ?long detective story? involved in the search for the footage and Mr Sarkissian said it took painstaking frame by frame work to shift the material from the deteriorating black and white film to digital format.
?It was very damaged tape as well, that segment of Armstrong at the beginning,? he said.
Digitising the recording was ?significant in the space flight history context? allowing it to be preserved and copied for future generations, said Mr Sarkissian.

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Long-lost footage of Apollo 11 moon landing to be screened - Telegraph

[Meat-Head]

how can it be screened if it's lost

[super jumbe]

It was the NASA who took the picture but was sent to Australia for safe keeping not getting much sense out of the media.

[nara]

It was the NASA who took the picture but was sent to Australia for safe keeping not getting much sense out of the media.

Not quite correct, it was Australia's own footage recorded off-air at the time as it was an Australian satellite dish which was receiving the transmission.

However, although this is being treated in the media as new news, it was actually first reported a year or so ago. NASA restored it in 2009 for the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission.

http://www.universetoday.com/74531/l...eased-in-2009/

[masur123]

It never actually happened, and this was filmed on the set of neighbours or home and away, or even maybe Prisoner Cell Block H

[super jumbe]

So after 41 years Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike Collins haven?t able to tell the truth on the moon mission in 1969 which some denials it ever happened.

[Cronus]

It never happened...Walt Disney bullshit!!!

Disney was way ahead of its time!