[geeks] Apollo 11 recreation

[Lionel Peterson]

On Jul 16, 2009, at 1:01 PM, adh at an.bradford.ma.us (Sandwich Maker)  
wrote:

> " From: Gaz God <gaz.god at gmail.com>
> "
> " Just found this :- http://www.wechoosethemoon.org/
> "
> " Recreation of the Apollo 11 mission as it happen 40 years agao,  
> currently at
> " T-55 minutes.
>
> been watching the shuttle on nasatv; they've been showing bits of
> apollo 11 vid recently 'restored' overnight.  today's regular 11am
> live bit [ordinarily repeated at 3pm and other times] was a press
> conference with the nasa goddard archivists, the guy in charge of
> apollo vid, and some others [didn't catch all of it].
>
> they're still in the process of trying to restore the lander vid, but
> all they have to work with is scan-converted broadcast tapes.  THEY
> LOST THE ORIGINAL SLOWSCAN TAPES[0].  and the very-best 1969 scan
> converters were picture-tube-and-camera.
>
> 'history and legacy panel' coming up at 1300edt on nasatv public...
>
> [0] original lander cam vid was 325 lines, 10 fps, 500khz they say.
> they made more than 1 set, but once 1 was filed in the goddard
> archives duplicates were erased.

I thought they JUST found a copy...

Lionel