Are you really convinced that NASA footage is original?

Question

Extract from the article:

''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.''

I am sorry did I read this right, 'complete digital make-over'?? I thought they just lost the original tape??? Now it seems it was erased and re-used then finally located in 2009, then original footage retrieved and the whole lot undergone a complete digital makeover!! Are you as confused as I am?? Because the more information comes out, the less I am inclined to believe that the footage is actually ORIGINAL.

I guess nothing is impossible with photoshop and a bit of video editing software.

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE56F5MK20090716

Answer 1

Sounds like a lot of confusing double talk. If they taped over the original footage, then what is there to work with? Face it, Hollywood could make anything look believable. At least they are not lying to us about the fact that Hollywood is involved (propping up NASA) and trying to make the 1969 moon adventure look believable to the world. The question we need to ask ourselves is "Did the 1969 moon landing ever really happen?" Those tapes if in fact they did ever exist would be worth billions of dollars today. We are told that NASA is bankrupt. Not too many sharp tacks in that box and we are told NASA pulled off a moon mission in 1969. You do the math.

Answer 2

We can prove the footage is original by applying the laws of physics and observing what we see. It was not possible to achieve a simulation of these things in 1969.

Absolutely anything can be proven or disproven, given enough effort and incliniation. People believe what they want to believe.

To the conspiracy types I say, government departments cant organise a proper balance between health, education and infrastructure, so they obviously dont have they ability to orchestrate an international cover up like that one!

From an expert aviators point of view, the footage shows pilot initiated reactionary movements of the lander approaching the surface of the moon and also apprroaching the orbiter after take off. These were far to realistically precise and correct to have been animated, or simulated in some studio. There was insufficient CGI Technology in 1969 to achieve something like that for TV anyway. This one is a real no brainer.

Answer 3

Not surprising NASA hasn't gone back to the moon until now Firstly there was over a decade where NASA funding was almost non-existent or being swallowed by the Shuttle program. Secondly, NASA has openly admitted that it has lost most of the data it collected during the moon missions of the 60's and 70's due to a total oversight in making sure they could store and read the data tapes. There was a recent news article (SBS News I think) where they demonstrated this issue, both in the fact that NASA has lost the original data tapes, and the original scientists/researchers that have copies don't have equipment to read them on.



There is a company that has been hired by NASA to try and address this and after much work they found ONE original IBM tape drive that would be suitable in Sydney, but it doesn't actually work and needs to be repaired before anything else can be done, and there is still no guarantee that the tapes will be readable after nearly 4 decades

Answer 4

They are not claiming it is original. The footage is a copy or from another source.

The fact that they were all on wires and in a giant studio is entirely besides the point.

And no i don't have any less respect for the Astronauts themselves. They still risked life and limb on behalf of others. Why do you think half of the best of best would end up as alcoholics?

The Moon Landing is an X-File. I want to believe.

Answer 5

The landing on the moon if it did happen, would have been far to important for them to have just erased it - because they had no room ? This was an event of epic proportions and was their place in history as the first to make it to the moon, not something anyone would erase, let alone such a big agency like NASA, the digital make over was of a broadcast of the event, not the original film. They are so smart ;-)

Answer 6

Most who claim that the original transmission was a fake are basing their arguments on technology available today.



The easy photoshop editing of moving images was not available then - even to NASA.



The ability for everyone watching such an amazing event to record a copy was still nearly 10 to 20 years away.



It would have been amazing if some broadcaster had not kept a copy - as has proved to be the case.



Having sat, crowded around a TV (not every home had one) spellbound watching this as a child - I have no doubt about it occuring.



Special effects just weren't that advanced then!

Answer 7

It is evident by the answers given that none of those answering or asking the questions were around 40 years ago when this occurred. The world came to a stand still and everyone with a television set was tuned to what was happening. It was real, it was actual, and it made your skin crawl with goosebumps. It was exciting. There were copies made by TV stations and other archives that were kept and feasibly could have been digitally mastered in lieu of the originals.



It was as real as 9/11, as real as both Kennedy's and Oswald's assasinations. And it was all captured so that doubting Thomas could 40 years try to tear it apart. If it wasn't for the progress made by the US in many areas, you all wouldn't be sitting at your computers today finding fault.

Answer 8

The problem is that the organisation is run by public servants.

So the originals were lost...it's shows a lack of foresight from those responsible but doesn't mean in any way the the whole event was mocked up.

It's certainly created FODDER for NUTJOBS & FELLOW CONSPIRACY THEORISTS, but that doesn't mean it was faked in the first place....Photoshop & other fancy special effect video software didn't exist in 1969...(let alone the computing power to run them)



Have you seen any comparable special effects films from the same era?

The moon landing footage is just a little more compelling & convincing!



Enhancing a copy or backup DOES NOT constitute faking the entire event...Many audio, video & films from past eras have been digitally enhanced in recent times ....I think you'll find that none of them have actually been "recreated" to replace the originals.....only enhanced...

Many things of cultural & historical importance have been lost in the past due to the lack of foresight from those in charge at the time. (artworks, architecture, films, TV etc etc)

It's only now that the majority recognise the importance of these parts of our history.....hence the modern mindset & active movement to retain that history...

Answer 9

I was at school when the moon landing happened. It was amazing. Space technology has become part of every day life and the understanding and wherewithall for all other space exploration. If nothing else, this proves, to me, that the original landing actually occurred.

Answer 10

Lets say the original footage was used, you can't enhance celluloid. What the camera captured it captured. Digital you can enhance, what's seen is what the screen can process, not the content of the digital image.



A reflection in a visor is artistic license. (I'm good at my job - look at my work).



The conspiracy theory? Not like you say it matters, but they didn't walk back and the moon has gravity. Physically not likely.

Answer 11

How did they tape over the 1st Superbowl? How did they permit the pilot episode of "i admire Lucy" wander off for extremely almost 50 years in the previous they finally stumbled on it in much less then pristine concern and the initiating audio thoroughly unrepairable? somewhat, it happens. As for the thought that the moon landing never got here approximately? what variety of evidence do you adult men extremely need in the previous you have faith? there is not any longer one shred of credible data that the government made all of it up. that includes radio broadcast source alerts which could no longer probably have been created, except of direction somebody replaced into headed in direction of the moon. and then there is Russia. They have been extra confident that our supermarkets have been a hoax then they have been that the moon landing never got here approximately.

Answer 12

Why is it so important that these tapes are found to be genuine/? millions of dollars were spent on this trip to the moon we have all seen the landing on the moon there must be thousands of tapes recording this so wat the big deal about if these tapes are real the money would be better spent helping the third world countries or on Research for the various diseases

Answer 13

It means little anyway. If it is real and the moon landing did happen then it's equivalent to a journey on a pin-head. It's a pity that so much money is spent on a trip that amounts to nothing more than the smallest step of man-kind. The money could have been, and could still be far better spent.

Answer 14

Why are a lot of people saying they haven't been back since 1969? The last one was 1972...



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landings#Manned_Moon_landings



Doesn't matter if the footage is original, most likely it comes from copies taken from the master film. What matters is if it's authentic and genuine, which I believe it is.

Answer 15

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Answer 16

You might be aware that this isn't the only instance of NASA "losing" priceless historical footage. Ken Johnston, who was in charge of the Lunar Receiving Laboratory at one of the prime contractors, was ordered to DESTROY some 10000 original Apollo negatives, prints and films. NASA means Never A Straight Answer.

Answer 17

Yes

Answer 18

No way!

As if an organisation like NASA would "accidentally" erase something as important as the moon landing!



Its such a load of bull. They never landed on the moon and if they did why have they not tried to do it again since 1969? Seems very odd.

Answer 19

Somebody might of erased one of the tapes but NASA has

back-ups of the recordings in case one of them blows a fuse or

something.

Answer 20

Vlad we don't need to give one line answers, there are whole sites run by astronomers (you know the people who actually know what they are talking about) which show just how little the conspiracy theorists know about space and physics

Answer 21

I'm not confused at all. The originals were erased. The digital enhancement was done on copies.

Answer 22

it is a load of baloney, man has never landed on the moon. how convenient that the tapes were erased and then found and then digitally remade.

Totally bull&^%$ and anyone who disagrees is completely brainwashed.

Its a worldwide massive hoax organised by the american government and nasa.

Answer 23

They were there and left stuff behind.

Funny how some people say not to "waste" money to go there again.

And then some say, because we haven't ["wasted money" and] gone back is proof that we never went the first time.



If you can't enhance celluloid, where do "colorized" films come from?

Answer 24

I agree with Joe - all these conspiracies about stuff, such as 9/11 and the moon landing. Makes me laugh :/

Answer 25

I recall back then that it was pointed out or noticed that there was an object lying in the back ground that experts said it shouldnt have been lying there due to the fact that because of the gravity it should have just floated away.? cant remember what the object was?

Answer 26

The moon landing was the biggest crock of s*it and was just another way Americans try to be better than everyone else. The rest of the world is not stupid. Americans are the only ones who buy their own hype.

Answer 27

No way, it was made in a back-lot of a hollywood film studio for $1,000 & everyone who worked on it mysteriously died within 6 months of the "supposed moon landing"

Answer 28

No and judging by what I saw from the supposedly original I never believed that they were even there. Strange how after all this time and technology being what it is; they have never been back… You would think they’d have conquered Mars at least by now… Mm…

Answer 29

I saw a stage hand carrying coffees behind the lunar ship.

Answer 30

lol moon landing conspiracy theorists make me laugh

Answer 31

MAN HAS NEVER WALKED ON THE MOON !!!

Answer 32

yes.

Answer 33

Never was convinced and even less so now.

Answer 34

I've always had my doubts ...

Answer 35

NO