https://gizmodo.com/former-nasa-intern-scores-1-82-million-for-moon-landin-1836579509
the 50th anniversary of the event, CNN reported.
a government auction while he was a Lamar University student interning at
Johnson Space Center in Houston. According to CNN, George did not in fact
realize that the lot included valuable footage of the moon landing at first, and
only realized said footage could be valuable in 2008:
George sold and donated some of the tapes, but he saved three of them after his
in 2008 that NASA was trying to locate its original tapes for the 40th
The tapes have a combined run time of 2 hours and 24 minutes, and they show the
entirety of the moon walk as seen by the Mission Control staff, from the first
walk to the phone call with then-President Richard Nixon, the auction house
said.
exited the Lunar Module if it was truly going to capture their first steps on
the surface of the moon, the camera was stowed in a shock-proof and insulated
LM, so that the camera would be in position to capture his slow descent down the
ladder and onto the lunar surface. The two astronauts later removed the camera
from the LM and mounted it on a tripod to capture a wider view of the LM and
The identity of the buyer was not disclosed.
recorded over) containing the slow-scan television (SSTV) footage received
directly from the 1969 moon landing, but says no data was actually destroyed as
they were able to recover both higher-quality footage converted to NTSC format
for broadcast and a Super 8 reel from Australia of some of the SSTV footage
pre-conversion.
from the video that had been converted to a format that could be broadcast over
between microwave towers.
The original SSTV footage is likely to never be found, according to the New York
Times, with NASA determining in the 2000s that they likely fell prey to tape
damage due to high humidity amid an energy shortage during the Carter
administration, when federal facilities were forced to turn off air
conditioning, the Times added.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/15/arts/moon-landing-tapes-auction.html
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/not-unsolved-mysteries-the-lost-apollo-11-tapes
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