Zelongs– Lost Moon Tapes

Last modified: Thursday, 26 April 05:31 am 2012

Moon landings six,Apollo 11,12,14,15,16,17. My focus is Apollo 11 mankinds first Boot/Foot on Our Moon, well Earths Moon really but we humans are the Boot/Foot Print to Prove Life exists some where in this Solar System we are Living Proof, we Humans had Our First Contact with the Earths Moon that keeps its constant face at Earth......

The Distance to the Moon from Earth =384,403 kilometres(238,857 miles) or 60 Earth radii. The Earth spins at 1609.344km/h (1,000 mph) and it travels through space at 67,000 mph with Our Moon orbiting at 1.023km/s .

1969: July 20

Buzz Aldrin(Lunar Module Pilot) and Neil Armstrong(Mission Commander) landed on the Moon while Michael Collins(Command Module Pilot) orbited Our Moon, Neil Armstrong was the first Man to set foot/boot(the first Moon walk) on Our Moon great event I too watched it on TV, I was very young but still I sat back and started to think out side the box at the time Wow! The footage I was watching it turns out was from Honeysuckle Creek's receiving station in Australia as Goldstone had a hitch, so it was suddenly switched to Honeysuckle Creek, hear and watch the switch.....also important to note Ed von Renouard's Super 8 footage of the Honeysuckle Creeks monitor as History unfolds.(right)

Below are six restored videos from NASA, released 09'

Apollo 11 real footage from Honeysuckle Creek.
Uploaded by Zelong. –"Courtesy of Honeysuckle Creek.net"

Important The search for the Apollo 11 TV tapes continues

The Apollo 11 Moonwalk in July 1969 was the climax of the Apollo Programwith the largest television audience in history watching Mankind's first steps on the Moon.Surprisingly, the best quality TV was never seen outside the tracking stations. The pictures seen by the world were degraded by the time they reached Houston. The highest quality TV was recorded on telemetry tapes at the three tracking stations which received the signal Goldstone, Honeysuckle Creek and Parkes. These tapes have never been replayed, but if they can be found and digitally processed, they could produce stunningly clear TV – much better than was seen in Houston or on the worldwide broadcast. The original tapes may be stored – and forgotten about – at a NASA facility somewhere. Read about the search (supported by those who worked at Goldstone, Parkes and Honeysuckle Creek) – and also see all the known photos taken at the tracking stations – by following the links.
More info here from Honeysuckle Creek.net and the Apollo 11 Tape Search Flyer.PDF
The tapes we would really like to find are 14" diameter, 1" wide telemetry tapes – not standard TV tapes. In fact, the tapes above–left are some of the tapes. The telemetry tapes at Honeysuckle John Vanderkly annotates the tapes(left)
on a M–22 telemetry recorder running at 120 inches per second – at Honeysuckle Creek, towards the end of the Apollo 11 EVA. Recording at this speed, the tapes had to be changed every 15 minutes.

The Tapes were transferred to Goddard

The Tapes that were sent to Goddard Space Flight Center were moved in 1970 to the US National Archives. No one knows why, but in 1984 700 boxes of tapes were returned to Goddard also missing are original recordings of the other five Apollo moon landings.

August 5, 06': One giant blunder for mankind, how NASA lost moon pictures
August 17, 06': NASA orders search for missing moonwalk tape
August 25, 06': NASA announces official search for the missing Apollo tapes
November 1, 06': Lost Moon landing tapes discovered
July 16, 09': Houston, We Erased The Apollo 11 Tapes
July 16, 09': Houston, we lost the moon tapes
July 16, 09': Lowry Digital Selected for Restoration of NASA's Apollo 11 Footage
July 25, 09': Bob Dean states “a Japanese space agency bought a copy of every picture NASA took during the Apollo program”, at the European Exopolitics Summit Barcelona(below)

2009: July 25

There's a lot of missing data, telemetry tapes, pictures from the Apollo program

Here's one explanation, Bob Dean has stated at the European Exopolitics Summit Barcelona, 25 July 09' that a Japanese space agency signed a contract to buy every copy of pictures NASA took during the Apollo program and than shows a picture from Apollo 13 he got from the Japanese space agency and that NASA erased 40 rolls of film of the apollo program.

Bob Dean Barcelona 25July 09',talks lost tapes.

2009: November 3

NASA final Report on the Tape Search

The time line of mishaps and confusion in the Apollo 11 telemetry tape search from Australia to America

The search for the Apollo 11 TV tapes (link)

NASA final Report on the Tape Search .PDF

Gaps in Documentation

Although Goddard policy now requires organizations to work through Code when storing and withdrawing records from the WNRC, it was not always that way. Record keeping personnel said that in the past, several organizations with large data holdings managed their own records and their own paperwork– –the so–called SF 135s needed to transfer records to the WNRC and the form 11s to withdraw them. The practice stopped in the late 1990s when NASA Headquarters became concerned that important data could be lost without a stricter accounting of what these organizations shipped and withdrew.
After examining the green ledger books, employees began to suspect that the organization responsible for the Apollo tapes enjoyed the same working arrangement.The accession numbers listed in the ledger books were not in sequential order. In fact, employees found large gaps, indicating that the records office had assigned those.