NASA to release high res Moon Landing video

radiospan

Sorry if there's been a thread on this already.

Apparently the only known recording today of Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon was taken by a TV camera pointed at a screen showing the feed from the moon, losing lots of the original detail.

Info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program_missing_tapes

The original tapes were found recently, and the restored versions are being released today at 4pm Irish time: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jul/HQ_M09-125_Newseum_Apollo_tapes.html

lord lucan

Sky news are showing this live i believe. Looking forward to it.

Beeker

That should be fantastic!:D

I had no idea about that, thanks.

I'll be watching Sky News at 4, so.

radiospan

Didn't look too great from the streaming video on the NASA site.

Ostrom

Same here, it is definately losing something in the process - I dont like the restored footage

It looked a good bit better on Sky than it did on online NASA tv.

It isn't an amazing improvement, but they're only 3 weeks into the process.

Ostrom

Just a preference I suppose, I think I prefer the grain

radiospan

I always prefer old film grain to digitally smoothed out crap.

Must look at this on TV later. Hopefully NASA will offer a decent download.

EDIT: So is it correct that this new improved video is still from the camera pointed at the original monitor?

Ricky91t

These journalists just don't get it :pac:

lord lucan

Looked a lot better on SKY than on NASA tv. Difference in quality wasn't huge though.