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'Um, Yeah, About That Apollo 11 Footage...' NASA Admits It Taped Over 
Moon Video

Associated Press

NASA could put a man on the moon but didn't have the sense to keep 
the original video of the live TV transmission.

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In an embarrassing acknowledgment, the space agency said Thursday 
that it must have erased the Apollo 11 moon footage years ago so that 
it could reuse the videotape.

But now Hollywood is coming to the rescue. The studio wizards who 
restored "Casablanca" are digitally sharpening and cleaning up the 
ghostly, grainy footage of the moon landing, making it even better 
than what TV viewers saw on July 20, 1969. They are doing it by 
working from four copies that NASA scrounged from around the world.

"There's nothing being created; there's nothing being manufactured," 
said NASA senior engineer Dick Nafzger, who is in charge of the 
project. "You can now see the detail that's coming out." 
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