Apollo 11 Moon Landing (1969 Original Footage)

On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 landing capsule with its crew of two astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, touched down on the moon.

The footage has become world famous and will be preserved, most likely, for the entire future of human history as one of the most significant acheivments of the species.

Therefore it is strange, and not known generally by the public, that NASA has lost their original Super-8 tapes of the event.

The Lost Footage
The journey and landing of Apollo 11 was filmed by the astronauts, Armstron, Aldrin and Michael Collins on high-quality Super-8 cameras and was broadcast live back to Earth.

After the mission returned successfully, Nasa archived the raw original footage as one would expect, but at some point, and no-one has any idea when, the footage was either taped over or misplaced.

All recorded footage of the Apollo 11 landing that we see today are low-quality copies of the footage as broadcast to television stations around the world. No copies of the original footage exist.

Footage of Subsequent Landings and Hoax Claims
The loss of the Apollo 11 footage has done nothing to quell persistent conspiracy theories claiming that the moon landings were an elaborate hoa and that the footage was filmed in a studio.

However, footage from the subsequent missions of Apollos 12-17 have been successfully retained by NASA and as such are available in much higher quality than the Apollo 11 footage. This fact should put to rest any claims that NASA 'conveniently lost' the footage to prevent close analysis of the film, as subsequent landing footage is available for analysis in high quality.