NASA Admits Original Moon Landing Tapes Got Erased

Kristan T. Harris | The Rundown Live

NASA admitted in 2006 that they could not locate the authentic video copy of the July 20, 1969, Moon landing.

Since then, Richard Nafzger, an engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center  has figured out what happened to the original recordings of the moon landing, they got erased.

‘The inescapable conclusion is that the recordings are no longer,’ said Dick Nafzger. He added ‘I don’t think anyone in the Nasa organization did anything wrong. It slipped  through the cracks, and nobody’s happy about it.’

“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.

The historical recording was part 200,000 tapes that were degaussed — magnetically erased — and re-used to save money.

‘These satellites were suddenly using tapes seven days a week, 24 hours a day,’ saidStan Lebar, the designer of lunar video camera used by  Armstrong, and one of the team involved in the search for the tapes.

‘So I don’t believe that  the tapes exist today at all. It was a hard thing to accept.

‘But there was just  an overwhelming amount of evidence that led us to  believe that they just don’t  exist anymore. And you have to accept reality.’

Never fear, NASA has found other replicas of the moon landing in the CBS and Johnson Space Center vault and has had them digitally enhanced.

California-based company 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.

This will refuel the conspiracy theories that 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.

“The conspiracy theorists are going to believe what they are going to believe,” added Lowry Digital Chief Operating Officer Mike Inchalik.

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