* Astronomy

Apollo 11 Mission Audio - Day 2 

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Lost BBC archive of Neil Armstrong's moon landing found

The BBC's library footage of Neil Armstrong's moon landing - which was missing, presumed lost forever - has been found by a viewer.
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Sound restored to mission control film shot during Apollo 11 moon landing

When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon on 20 July 1969, Nasa used two film cameramen at mission control in Houston to capture the moment back on Earth. The footage has been regularly seen in the decades since but it has always lacked a synchronised soundtrack, which never made it into the archive with the film.
Now film maker and Apollo aficionado Stephen Slater, working with London-based archive film company Footagevault, has painstakingly united the visual material with high-quality recordings of the original mission audio.
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After three years of painstakingly thorough searching, NASA has concluded that the original tapes of the first manned moon landing are most likely lost forever.
The original footage of the Apollo 11 moonwalk were probably destroyed during a period when NASA was erasing old magnetic tapes and reusing them to record satellite data.
However, with the help of tape restoration experts, the agency has refurbished the existing footage.

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