So they moved the goal posts……’of course it was a contingency, but we had to hide it for national security’……since the technology has improved over the last fifty years….here are the ‘real’ images…..we know we told everyone we ‘lost’ the footage, but again…..’national security’……..we didn’t mean to lie to you, it was for your own good…….now take this booster’
This is a link to a full copy of Fly Me to the Moon (2024)
Fly Me to the Moon (2024) is a romantic comedy-drama set during the historic Apollo 11 moon landing. The film centers on two main characters: Kelly Jones (played by Scarlett Johansson), a bold marketing executive hired to revamp NASA’s public image, and Cole Davis (played by Channing Tatum), the Apollo 11 launch director, who is focused on ensuring the mission’s success. Cole, still affected by the tragedy of Apollo 1, is highly resistant to Kelly’s involvement.
As interest in the space program dwindles, Kelly is tasked with creating buzz for the mission, but things take a twist when she is instructed to stage a fake moon landing as a backup plan, raising the stakes and tensions. The film blends comedy and drama, as the tension between Kelly and Cole slowly evolves into a romantic relationship.
The film, directed by Greg Berlanti, explores the intersection of science, politics, and media during the space race, offering a mix of humor and emotional depth while playing on the backdrop of 1960s culture and the Apollo mission
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The original recordings of the first humans landing on the moon 40 years ago were erased and re-used, but newly restored copies of the original broadcast look even better, NASA officials said on Thursday.
NASA released the first glimpses of a complete digital make-over of the original landing footage that clarifies the blurry and grainy images of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the surface of the moon.
The full set of recordings, being cleaned up by Burbank, California-based Lowry Digital, will be released in September. The preview is available at www.nasa.gov.
NASA admitted in 2006 that no one could find the original video recordings of the July 20, 1969, landing.
Since then, Richard Nafzger, an engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, who oversaw television processing at the ground-tracking sites during the Apollo 11 mission, has been looking for them.
The good news is he found where they went. The bad news is they were part of a batch of 200,000 tapes that were degaussed -- magnetically erased -- and re-used to save money.
"The goal was live TV," Nafzger told a news conference.
"We should have had a historian running around saying 'I don't care if you are ever going to use them -- we are going to keep them'," he said.
They found good copies in the archives of CBS news and some recordings called kinescopes found in film vaults at Johnson Space Center.
Lowry, best known for restoring old Hollywood films, has been digitizing these along with some other bits and pieces to make a new rendering of the original landing.
Nafzger does not worry that using a Hollywood-based company might fuel the fire of conspiracy theorists who believe the entire lunar program that landed people on the moon six times between 1969 and 1972 was staged on a movie set or secret military base.
"This company is restoring historic video. It mattered not to me where the company was from," Nafzger said.
"The conspiracy theorists are going to believe what they are going to believe," added Lowry Digital Chief Operating Officer Mike Inchalik.
And there may be some unofficial copies of the original broadcast out there somewhere that were taken from a NASA video switching center in Sydney, Australia, the space agency said. Nafzger said someone else in Sydney made recordings too.
"These tapes are not in the system," Nafzger said. "We are certainly open to finding them."
Greatest feat in human history, no one thought to keep the original tapes.
So they moved the goal posts……’of course it was a contingency, but we had to hide it for national security’……since the technology has improved over the last fifty years….here are the ‘real’ images…..we know we told everyone we ‘lost’ the footage, but again…..’national security’……..we didn’t mean to lie to you, it was for your own good…….now take this booster’
https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=8121918111166144
The most interesting point @ ~6:20 is that for a moon mission, they will need 9 fueling trips for a rocket make it to the moon and back.
This is a link to a full copy of Fly Me to the Moon (2024)
Fly Me to the Moon (2024) is a romantic comedy-drama set during the historic Apollo 11 moon landing. The film centers on two main characters: Kelly Jones (played by Scarlett Johansson), a bold marketing executive hired to revamp NASA’s public image, and Cole Davis (played by Channing Tatum), the Apollo 11 launch director, who is focused on ensuring the mission’s success. Cole, still affected by the tragedy of Apollo 1, is highly resistant to Kelly’s involvement.
As interest in the space program dwindles, Kelly is tasked with creating buzz for the mission, but things take a twist when she is instructed to stage a fake moon landing as a backup plan, raising the stakes and tensions. The film blends comedy and drama, as the tension between Kelly and Cole slowly evolves into a romantic relationship.
The film, directed by Greg Berlanti, explores the intersection of science, politics, and media during the space race, offering a mix of humor and emotional depth while playing on the backdrop of 1960s culture and the Apollo mission
Yeah im not sure how a fictional modern movie covers up the moon landing, considering there were multiple.
However, never forget that the footage and telemetry for the original mission has been lost and what we have today is a digitally doctored version.
https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/science/moon-landing-tapes-got-erased-nasa-admits-idUSTRE56F5MK/
Greatest feat in human history, no one thought to keep the original tapes.
Sure, sure lmao.