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Re: Moonwalk Tape Misplaced, NASA Says


From: "Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:09:15 -0400

On 8/18/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, Juha-Matti Laurio wrote:

> This is something unbelievable:
>
> "The U.S. government has misplaced the original recording of the first moon landing, including astronaut Neil Armstrong's 
famous "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," a NASA spokesman said Monday.
>
> "We haven't seen them for quite a while. We've been looking for over a year, and they haven't turned up," [spokesman Grey] 
Hautaluoma said."
>
> More at
> 
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-moon15aug15,1,4511978.story?coll=la-headlines-nation&ctrack=1&cset=true

That's nothing. A couple of decades ago, the BBC wiped a huge number of
recordings, so they could recycle the tapes.

http://www.answers.com/topic/wiping-2


Holy Crap! I cant believe they wiped out episodes of  Dixon of Dock
Green! those bastards!! If it wasnt for the recovery of Steptoe and
Son videos, I would boycot the bbc altogether!

-JP<JK>
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