New Moon Footage: NASA Releases Remastered Moon Landing Footage (VIDEO)

UPDATED 7/16:

The enhanced footage of the 1969 moonwalk has been released by NASA.

Watch the video:

As part of NASA's 40th anniversary celebrations of the 1969 moon landing, they plans to roll out digitally remastered footage-- some of which has been unseen for 40 years-- of the first manned lunar excursion. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin will be shown setting down on the moon, along with '15 key moments' from their journey. The footage will be released tomorrow, July 16th, and is part of a 'comprehensive Apollo 11 moonwalk restoration project expected to be completed by the fall.'

Read the full press release below:

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NASA Holds Briefing to Release Restored Apollo 11 Moonwalk Video:

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media briefing at 11 a.m. EDT on Thursday, July 16, at the Newseum in Washington to release greatly improved video imagery from the July 1969 live broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk.

The release will feature 15 key moments from Neil Armstrong's and Buzz Aldrin's historic moonwalk using what is believed to be the best available broadcast-format copies of the lunar excursion, some of which had been locked away for nearly 40 years. The initial video released Thursday is part of a comprehensive Apollo 11 moonwalk restoration project expected to be completed by the fall.

The Newseum is located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. The news conference will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's Internet homepage.

Participants in the briefing will be:
-- Richard Nafzger, team lead and Goddard engineer
-- Stan Lebar, former Westinghouse Electric program manager
-- Mike Inchalik, president of Lowry Digital, Burbank, Calif.

Comments

[wbramh]

As I read the conspiracy theorist comments, I'm beginning to understand why we don't have decent healthcare in this Country.

[jsarets]

The moon landing deniers may be interested in these new photos of the Apollo landing sites taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.in the past week:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html

[MajorKong]

They'll say it's a gnat sitting on a piece of swiss cheese....­.

[DismayedRepub]

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

[Buddy McCue]

I didn't know they would look so tiny!

[RaisingAwareness]

There were 45 tapes of Apollo 11 video that were erased. Not just 1 or 2 tapes. So does that sound like an embarrassing accident or something else to you? Also, this is just 1 mission that I know of so don't know how much more of "moon" footage was destroyed.

So at least 45 tapes down the "Memory Hole". Guess no one will be analyzing those anytime soon.

[NYC07]

Reading the posts on this thread , I guess it's a slow day for the Obama "Birthers"

[MichaelMcKLA]

Hahahahahaha! OK for the non-believers, NASA has released new photos shot from the Lunar Orbiter of the landing sites for Apollo 11, 14, 15, 16 and 17. Go check out the pictures shot between July 11 and July 15 of this year:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/apollosites.html

But I'm sure the hoax crowd will insist these images were Photoshopped. LOL LOL LOL

I have a good supply of tin foil here for the hat makers among you.

[MichaelMcKLA]

This is a repost but I think it's apropos given the many comments by the pro-hoax crowd:

It must be stressful, wallowing daily in a pool of suspicion and paranoia. You must constantly wonder whether you are being lied to. You don't trust your built-in BS-detector and you left your common sense in the basement.

Consequently, you're more inclined to believe the ravings of a looney-tunes tin-hat dude. What does he have going that scientists and reporters do not? His eyes are wide and full of fear and he speaks with the presumed authority that comes with a loud voice and he slams the table with his fist.

All that drama is intended to convince you of the "truth" of his message. It doesn't speak well for the conspiracy crowd. Why would you follow the ravings of disturbed people? You people need to meditate on that.

Images come to mind of loud, fist-pounding fanatics from history who were able to convince millions of the "truth" of their lies. Those followers also didn't meditate on what they were doing.

[yukoner1]

NASA could have saved us a lot of band width by filling up the trunk on the Saturn V with all the future conspiracy theorists who have swarmed this post.

[Mat8675]

Four words.

"When we left Earth"

A documentary chronicling all the Apollo missions. To the skeptics out there asking us to visit your links, I ask you to watch this in it's entirety and then come claim that we never landed on the moon.

This hard work should be appreciated not scoffed at!

[lazercat2008]

Someone who knows how to do those polls on here do one right now. Real or Fake.

[MajorKong]

Short of a death-bed confession (preferably more than one) by an Apollo astronaut - it's going to take a heck of a lot more than some obscure photo analyst with a penchant for conspiracy theories and the supernatural to convince me it was a hoax.

I won't say it's impossible, but I'll say it's highly improbable.

[Mat8675]

I'll go ahead and say that having every single employee at NASA in on a conspiracy, and then the continuing cover-up is simply impossible!

[lazercat2008]

Have you heard of the Manchurian Candidate? They can effect your memory. Sirhan, Sirhan's brother said he could not hurt a fly.

[NYC07]

Sirhan, Sirhan's brother said he could not hurt a fly.

I suggest you read his diary entries they prove otherwise.

[twilight druid]

LOL

Some people believe the number of posts wins an argument.

The conspiracy theorists can fill the board with their rant all they want. It doesn't change a thing. We landed on the moon.

You can measure the distance to the moon with lasers using the reflective devices left there by the astronauts.

[bccmeteorites]

I have read many of these posts and I think everyone is missing the point by not looking at the bigger picture. The Apollo Missions were largely political in nature fed by academic, scholastic and educational underpinnings. You have to inject motive and opportunity into a scenario in order to make a claim and reach a successful conclusion. What was happening in 1969? The lunar landing provided an opportunity for the shifting of cameras away from the massive body count buildup coming from Viet Nam, the burning cities from race riots, anti-war demonstrations and police state shootings of ordinary civilians by law enforcement. Continued threats and fear of a nuclear holocaust launched by the Soviets. The Government needed help. They needed something bigger than the domestic and international problem and NASA provided that breathing room. NASA was just a temporary fix to permanent larger sets of social and political problems.

They are desperate in their efforts to remain relevant in a world where one or two people (us for instance) can accomplish with $125.00 what it takes them to accomplish with $125,000,0­00.00.

[Conk]

Are you freaking kidding me? Lost and erased tapes, of the most amazing event in human history? Fake fake fake. Lies lies lies.

Agreed, what are the censored parts of hundreds of pictures? What is NASA hiding? The fact that someone else is up there is what!

[onepartysystem]

What are they hiding? That it NEVER HAPPENED!

http://www.aulis.com/jackstudies_index1.html

[GrantedBKNY]

They are hiding the truth, obviously.­...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31QUOUxqz2M

[MajorKong]

Just shout louder and maybe we'll believe you.

[MajorKong]

So, if the moon landing was faked, why didn't the Russians say anything?

At the height of the Cold War it would have been a huge propaganda victory for them.

[onepartysystem]

They have. They know it was faked. It was in Pravda.

Maybe they didn't know then, but they sure know now.

[MajorKong]

As the Russians used to say "There's no truth in Pravda and there's no news in Isvestia"

*For those who dont' know, Pravda means "Truth" and Isvestia means "News".

[onepartysystem]

Okay, everyone who is so sure we landed on the moon should check out this analysis of the "pictures taken from the moon" from the Apollo Missions.

http://www.aulis.com/jackstudies_index1.html

Look at these in their entirety and then come back and let's discuss whether man has been to the surface of the moon.

If you won't look at the evidence then you are just a shill for NASA and our lying-ass government.

[GrantedBKNY]

"The Simpsons" are brainwashing our children. Watch the evidence, I dare you..... DARE YOU!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5z2be0ebcQ

oh, and BOO!

[onepartysystem]

So, did you take a look at the link?

[Gordo10]

go online line to NASA own site they have great pics! but my 2yr old son asked my "why are some of the pics fuzzy?" what he was asking is why on some of the frames there are either blacked out areas on the pics or airbrushed over. I kinda knew the answer which is only to hide an image that NASA or whomever didn't want the public to see. But I told my son the camera back then were not so good