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Old moon tapes found!

This is a bit coincidental to me: the other week I was watching something on tv about the moon landing, and it was the first time I heard that there had been higher quality tapes, made in Australia, that went missing.

Now, a week later, they are announced as found.

I guess I'll wait for the Nasa announcement before getting to excited. Which I hope does indeed occur.
 
I have never understood why the Apollo debunkers are prepared to use the fact that such grainy poor footage of Armstrong setting foot on the moon is evidence that it was faked. I suppose it's for the same reasons as they suppose that traversing the Van Allen belts should have been fatal, there should have been a blast crater under the LEM, there should be stars visible in the footage, etc etc. Subsequent mission footage (with the exclusion of 12, where Al Bean inadvertently attempted to film sunspots), was superb, and even shots from the LEM cabin window of Armstrong are of very good quality - (were the latter recorded then as opposed to being beamed back at the time?)
 
Yup, I bet the conspiracy nuts are having a field day with this one already. Any time NASA has some news about the moon, they're going to try to piggy-back on it in order to get another 15 minutes of fame.
 
With the new higher-quality audio, it will be revealed that Armstrong said,

"That's one small sip for a man, one giant Coke for mankind."
 
Damn. That figures, though. If the Daily Express said the sun was out, I'd go and take my washing off the line.
 
According to Phil Plait, "Update 2: According to Bob Jacobs, NASA Deputy Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs, the Sunday Express article I link to below "is a fiction". Sounds to me like I got duped, and I apologize to everyone for forwarding this story. Hopefully more info will come out soon, and I’ll update as I hear it."
 
Crap, oh well. So what is that youtube video I linked to? Is that old footage?
 
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