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There are numerous problems with this narrative. Since the Westinghouse engineer stated that their
camera took far better quality images than he was seeing broadcast on television, why did NASA not
release the better quality images which they had on tape? Would it not have been of incredible
interest to humanity to view the Apollo Moon landings in high resolution rather then the vastly
degraded resolution of the original live broadcasts? Why take such valuable tapes and file them away
in a warehouse when the world was clamoring for all material related to the Moon landings?
Broadcast rights to the high definition recordings could have been sold to the media to help defray
the cost of the space program.

Secondly, it is inconceivable that the government which spent nearly $40 billion dollars on the
Apollo space program would not have given more attention to the quality of the broadcast of
humanity’s greatest triumph of exploration. The process they came up with to broadcast the live
images was Mickey Mouse. Why record tape at all in a proprietary format incompatible with global
media? Why design the system so that the film could only be played back on proprietary equipment
which only NASA possessed? Are we to believe that a government that had the capacity to send men
to the Moon and back could not fit a communication jack onto their broadcast equipment to enable
the global media to tap into? The story continues in another NPR broadcast.

Houston, We Erased the Apollo 11 Tapes
NPR July 30, 2009

An exhaustive, three-year search for some tapes that contained the original footage of the Apollo
11 Moonwalk has concluded that they were probably destroyed during a period when NASA was
erasing old magnetic tapes and reusing them to record satellite data.

"We're all saddened that they're not there. We all wish we had 20-20 hindsight," says Dick Nafzger,
a TV specialist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, who helped lead the search
team.

"I don't think anyone in the NASA organization did anything wrong," Nafzger says. "I think it slipped
through the cracks, and nobody's happy about it..."

But the lost tapes mean that the world will probably never again see the original images beamed
back to Earth by the lunar camera that is now resting on the Moon's dusty Sea of Tranquility, right
where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left it...

The Search

But, as NPR first reported back in 2006, the tapes were missing - no one had any idea where they
were stored. That report helped trigger a massive search by NASA.

"We had hundreds and hundreds of leads coming to us during this period," says Lebar. "Every one
of them was investigated."

Lebar and others spent hours and hours in a vast government storage facility known as the
Washington National Records Center, a place that Lebar compares to the giant warehouse at the