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The Apollo missing tapes are the missing original recordings of the transmissions (Slow-scan television and telemetry data) broadcast during the Apollo 11 moonwalk[1]. Slow-scan television (SSTV) is used by amateur radio operators, to transmit and receive static pictures in monochrome (black & white) or colour. ...
Telemetry is a technology that allows the remote measurement and reporting of information of interest to the system designer or operator. ...
Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. ...
Astronaut Bruce McCandless on an untethered EVA Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) is work done by an astronaut away from the Earth and outside of his or her spacecraft. ...
Background
The video of the Apollo 11 moonwalk was transmitted in Slow-Scan TV (SSTV) format (see Apollo TV camera). This raw data was recorded onto one inch wide fourteen-track analog magnetic data tapes at the same time as it was converted to the format for viewing on conventional television [2]. The "scan conversion" was done by using a conventional television camera pointed at a monitor displaying the SSTV images. Although recordings of the Apollo 11 moonwalk made after the real-time scan conversion exist and are publicly available, the SSTV tapes recorded before the format conversion are missing. With modern technology, better quality video of the moonwalk could be obtained from the original SSTV tapes. Slow-scan television (SSTV) is used by amateur radio operators, to transmit and receive static pictures in monochrome (black & white) or colour. ...
Apollo Lunar Television Camera TV cameras used on the Apollo (and later ASTP and Skylab) missions varied in design, with image quality improving significantly with each design. ...
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There are about 2612 boxes that might contain the tapes and whose location is unknown. It is estimated that about 13,000 original magnetic tapes are missing.[3] They might be at Goddard Space Flight Center or another location within the NASA archiving system. If the tapes are found, modern techniques would allow the production of higher quality television pictures of the Apollo 11 moonwalk than were seen by the public (and which are currently available). Apollo 11 video recorded contemporaneously onto videotape and kinescope after the scan conversion and high quality video from the other Project Apollo missions exists. Aerial view of Goddard Space Flight Center. ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an agency of the United States federal government, responsible for the nations public space program. ...
Bottom view of VHS videotape cassette with magnetic tape exposed Videotape is a means of recording images and sound onto magnetic tape as opposed to movie film. ...
Kinescope (IPA: [], []) originally referred to the cathode ray tube used in television monitors. ...
Project Apollo was a series of human spaceflight missions undertaken by the United States of America (NASA) using the Apollo spacecraft and Saturn launch vehicle, conducted during the years 1961 – 1975. ...
On August 16, 2006 NASA announced its official search. "The original tapes may be at the Goddard Space Flight Center … or at another location within the NASA archiving system", "NASA engineers are hopeful that when the tapes are found they can use today's digital technology to provide a version of the moonwalk that is much better quality than what we have today."[4]
The news that the tapes were missing broke publicly on August 5, 2006 when the printed and online versions of The Sydney Morning Herald published the story with the title One giant blunder for mankind: how NASA lost moon pictures.[5] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
NASA is also looking for these tapes as the new Project Orion will carry out the same tasks as the original Apollo Command and Service Modules: "Get a team of astronauts to the moon and back safely". [6] Orion is a spacecraft currently under development by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). ...
The Goddard Center's Data Evaluation Laboratory, which has only known piece of equipment that decodes the analogue tapes, was set to be closed in October 2006 raising fears that, even if they are found, it might not be possible to decode and copy them.
On November 1, 2006 Cosmos Magazine reported that some other lost telemetry tapes have been discovered in a small marine science laboratory in the main physics building at the Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Western Australia. However, it is unlikely that these tapes contain the slow scan video. One of the old tapes has since been sent to NASA for analysis.[7] [8]
A January 2007 article stated that the missing Apollo 11 tapes have not been found [9]. Currently the tapes are still missing.
Alternative interpretations Proponents of the Apollo Moon Landing hoax accusations maintain that the tapes never existed, and that only low quality video was faked in order to cover inevitable errors.[citation needed] It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Independent evidence for Apollo Moon landings. ...
References - ^ Wikinews, Apollo Moon landings tapes reported missing, August 13, 2006
- ^ John Sarkissian, The search for the Apollo 11 SSTV tapes, CSIRO Parkes Observatory, May 21, 2006
- ^ Associated Press, NASA Searching for Moon Landing Tapes, Forbes, August 15, 2006
- ^ Richard Macey, NASA orders search for missing moonwalk tape, The Sydney Morning Herald, August 17, 2006
- ^ Richard Macey, One giant blunder for mankind: how NASA lost moon pictures , The Sydney Morning Herald, August 5, 2006
- ^ Larry Wheeler, NASA hopes archives have map to moon, Florida Today, Sept 24,2006
- ^ Carmelo Amalfi, Lost Moon landing tapes discovered, COSMOS Magazine, Nov 1,2006
- ^ Australia ABC News Online, Aust scientist to give NASA original moon landing tapes, November 2, 2006
- ^ Marc Kaufman, The Saga Of the Lost Space Tapes, The Washington Post, January 31, 2007
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See also Apollo Lunar Television Camera TV cameras used on the Apollo (and later ASTP and Skylab) missions varied in design, with image quality improving significantly with each design. ...
Project Apollo was a series of human spaceflight missions undertaken by the United States of America (NASA) using the Apollo spacecraft and Saturn launch vehicle, conducted during the years 1961 – 1975. ...
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It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Independent evidence for Apollo Moon landings. ...
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