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NASA releases clearest videos yet of 1969 moonwalk

edition.cnn.com — NASA released newly restored videos Thursday of two U.S. astronauts taking the world's first steps on the moon.

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  • sedawk, on 07/17/2009, -0/+40Dear CNN,

    Please have your on-line video department read the following:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(image)

    Yours Sincerely,

    Someone who can't ***** stand watching stretched video encoded at the wrong aspect ratio
  • Chairboy, on 07/17/2009, -2/+32Holy *****, there's an aggressive strain of stupid floating around.
  • SEN5241, on 07/17/2009, -2/+27I love how the data tapes for arguably the most significant event in human history were thrown back into the scratch pool to save a little bit of dough.

    http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090716/tsc-uk-nasa-t ...
  • DiggityDugged, on 07/17/2009, -8/+28Jeez, I'm so sick of all this Michael Jackson news still getting front paged.
  • whipnet, on 07/17/2009, -2/+21This thread had great potential, but the ***** arrived early.

    *
  • CptBuck, on 07/17/2009, -1/+20The shadow comes from the reflection of the earth (in the same way that we have shadows at night during a full moon.)

    The flag is "waving" because they didn't full extend the holder because they preferred the way it looked. Crumpled would be a more accurrate description.

    We don't have a "hard time" going to the space station, the shuttle is a very precarious piece of equipment that is more susceptible to weather than a saturn V rocket. Shuttle launches take place all the time.

    The no money "excuse" has nothing to do with how rich America is but how rich NASA is. Their budget is 17 billion dollars, which is nothing.

    It's real.
  • Dregganaut, on 07/17/2009, -0/+18"How does the flag keep itself straight like that without zero gravity.. anyone?"

    Dude, there's a rod in a seam at the top of the flag. That's why it stayed up. Not because of zero gravity. There is gravity on the moon, sheesh!
  • trevorr, on 07/17/2009, -1/+18Flippin awesome, those astronauts had a job to do and all but they had to be jumpin out of their skin with excitement.

    Why people would even question the legitimacy of the moon landing is beyond me.
  • benroy, on 07/17/2009, -2/+18There needs to be some sort of required I.Q. test to join Digg.
    Something along the lines of Idiocracy's "If you have a bucket that holds three gallons and a bucket that holds five gallons, how many buckets do you have?"
    Some of these comments are embarrassingly stupid.
  • curtmcgoy, on 07/17/2009, -2/+17wow
  • misterhektik, on 07/17/2009, -3/+16Everyone knows the cameraman was Dr. Manhattan.
  • TheMagician2007, on 07/17/2009, -1/+14Quoted from BadAstronomy blog: "The deal is that the telemetery from Apollo was downlinked from the Moon to two radio telescopes in Australia and one in the U.S. The data were recorded on tapes and then processed. The tapes themselves were stored for some time, but after the data were secured it was deemed that the original tapes were no longer needed. They were wiped and reused for LANDSAT and Shuttle telemetry — we’re talking hundreds of thousands of tapes here, so reusing them saved NASA a lot of money. That decision may seem silly now, but at the time was deemed necessary."
  • Divector, on 07/17/2009, -0/+13The flag was starched to keep it stiff for effect. Also it had an extending metal arm on the top to keep the flag hanging like that.
  • punkcat, on 07/17/2009, -0/+12landed some stuff on mars too i think.
  • slickmick, on 07/17/2009, -7/+18We went to the moon 40 years ago but can't go back today because we don't have enough money.

    I bet the most interesting thing about being high up in government is how blatantly and obviously you can lie to people, get caught half the time, and yet still have the same people believe the same lies a few weeks later.
  • ApokalypseNow, on 07/17/2009, -1/+12@slickmick
    There's just not much point in going that far out. Not much reason to go that high with a manned craft, not much reason to go back to the moon. This isn't a case of "allegedly" going there, they did - THERE'S THE GODDAMN VIDEO FOR YOU.
  • inactive, on 07/17/2009, -0/+11errr didn't we do like 5 more moon walks after this?
  • superkeer, on 07/17/2009, -1/+11There's a reason it looks real.
  • marciot, on 07/17/2009, -0/+10The moon is real, the Earth is an elaborate hoax.
  • RogerStrong, on 07/17/2009, -0/+10We haven't gone back because there simply hasn't been any demand to go back.

    The big space budgets of the early 1960s were a knee-jerk reaction to Soviet firsts: First satellite, first man in space, etc. At a time when people suddenly realized that nuclear-equipped Soviet bombers and missiles could reach them, seeing that Soviet-made point of light pass over U.S. territory was a Very Big Deal. People demanded the Something Be Done.

    But once Gemini got going and the U.S. was visibly ahead, that demand was gone. The space budget was slashed and Saturn V production capped even before the first moon landing. The landings were done with what hardware was already in the pipeline, and the last landings were cancelled.

    By Apollo 13 the space program couldn't even get air time on national TV (until the accident.) With no interest from the American people, Congress sent the money elsewhere.

    Many people say that if Kennedy hadn't been assassinated, Apollo wouldn't have been cancelled. Being his big legacy is what kept it funded.

    There just hasn't been a demand to go back. Which is sad.
  • beldenge, on 07/17/2009, -1/+11Buried for zero gravity on the moon.
  • Dumbledorito, on 07/17/2009, -0/+10Begun this clone war has?
  • PianoPianoPiano, on 07/17/2009, -0/+9When I first heard about the moon conspiracy theories, I was intrigued. I felt there were many interesting and unanswered questions.

    BUT after renting the complete unedited 10-hr long footage of the Apollo 11 moon mission (titled "Apollo 11: Men On the Moon"), I started to think that maybe I was being a *****. There were just too many people involved and the complexity of the conspiracy would just be too great.

    PLUS you can see most of the moon conspiracies scientifically debunked on the Discovery Channel show, Mythbusters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JbaM1xNIis - this is not the whole episode...you need to find individual clips unfortunately.
  • fury420, on 07/17/2009, -2/+11will you shut up when the Indians produce a high-quality imaging map of the lunar surface? or have you already started working on another excuse?
  • Dumbledorito, on 07/17/2009, -6/+15White people just can't moonwalk.
  • voze, on 07/17/2009, -2/+11Yeah
  • chesstwin, on 07/17/2009, -1/+10lol wut?
  • fury420, on 07/17/2009, -0/+9nobody has been able to put a manned mission more than 851 miles up in the 40 years since Apollo only because nobody has tried. It's not like we wanted to, were trying to, but were not able & failed, we simply did not try.

    If there was a viable economic justification for us to have continued going back to the moon every couple of years since the 1960s it would have been a different matter, but there just wasn't.
  • UbIwerks, on 07/17/2009, -1/+9Just watched 'In the Shadow of the Moon' two nights ago with my dad. If you haven't seen it, do so now! :)
  • CptBuck, on 07/17/2009, -3/+11Go America, go humanity.
  • S1ngular1ty1, on 07/17/2009, -1/+9Pretty much.
  • JakeBC, on 07/17/2009, -0/+8Two!
  • PhoenixAvatar2, on 07/17/2009, -0/+7The only reason I check out the comments on moon threads is to see moon deniers get their asses soundly handed to them by people with intelligence.
  • CptBuck, on 07/17/2009, -1/+7It wasn't remastered, the video that everyone watched in 1969 was a camera recording of a television screen at mission control. Until now, the actual on board tape, the physical tape itself, was in storage. That's what you are watching.
  • superkeer, on 07/17/2009, -0/+6Just like the original Star Wars trilogy!
  • Khast, on 07/17/2009, -1/+6Does creative answers get bonus points? How about logical comebacks?

    The ones who come up with the bucket conspiracy, and the flaming bucket fanboys should fail the test.
  • S1ngular1ty1, on 07/17/2009, -0/+5slickmick,

    If you are unaware (which you probably are) we are going back to the moon. NASA is designing spacecraft for it right now. Unless the budget is cut (which could happen) we will be setting foot on the moon again. You see, it takes time to design, build, and test the complicated equipment required to take men to the moon. It did in the 1960s and it still does.

    Here are some of the new things being designed and built right now for going back to the moon:
    http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/al ...
    http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/ne ...
    http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/ar ...
    http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/ar ...
    http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/constellation/or ...

    These designs are all part of the constellation program:
    http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/CxEMM_SITE/index ...

    There has been no interest in going far from the Earth with people until recently because the only place we could go was the moon and we had already been there 6 times and it is very expensive. We are going to use our return trip to the moon as a test for a trip to Mars later on.

    And the ozone doesn't protect the Earth from most of the radiation you are worried about. The Earth's magnetic field protects the Earth from much of the cosmic radiation in space. That is why the Aurora exist in norther regions of the Earth. The radiation is directed by the magnetic field and hits the Earth in the northern atmosphere.
  • coondog35, on 07/17/2009, -0/+5Well, at least your heart is in the right place...
  • CptBuck, on 07/17/2009, -1/+6Does make sense.

    We cut the apollo missions for lack of funding and to focus on Skylab.

    The russians could never afford to go to the moon, they ended up focusing on Mir.

    We then built the space shuttle which isn't designed to land on anything except a runway and thats our only means of gettting humans into space at the moment unless we tag along with the russians.

    Finally, there wouldn't have been anything more for us to do on the moon anyways, and their still isn't. Humans don't need to go beyond low earth orbit at the moment because it's overly risky for a mission that a probe could just as easily do. Space is a dangerous place, watch Apollo 13.
  • RogerStrong, on 07/17/2009, -0/+5Besides the flag pole, there's an arm going across to support the flag in its open position.
  • manjar, on 07/17/2009, -1/+6I see we're still struggling to make a worthwhile MJ joke out of this.
  • CptBuck, on 07/17/2009, -1/+6And remastered doesn't mean doctored, you need only watch a DVD print of an old movie to understand what modern film techniques can do to restore film.
  • RogerStrong, on 07/17/2009, -1/+6Are we supposed to feel sorry for you? Is there a charity for the mentally challenged you want us to donate to?
  • Dugglous, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4We made the moon OUR warehouse?

    Damn selfish Americans.
  • heytomkat, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4errr i am going to say the internet is somewhat significant.
  • Atario, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4And as long as we're talking about how crappy CNN's video facility is, and at the risk of taking NASA's web site down, why don't we just go to the source?

    http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/apol ...
  • voze, on 07/17/2009, -2/+6[/bong]
  • PhoenixAvatar2, on 07/17/2009, -1/+5FYI: The moon's gravity is about 1/6th of earth's. No where hear zero.
  • S1ngular1ty1, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4It was done in the 1960s. WTF did you think it was going to be?
  • bluekangaroo, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4The video looks great compared to the original... but....It looks like CNN decided that the date needed to be remastered as well. It says "July 16, 1969" along the bottom. July 16, 1969 was the day Apollo 11 was LAUNCHED, not the day they landed. They LANDED on JULY 20th, 1969.

    I'm sure the conspiracy folks will use this to fuel their theories now too.
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