Quote (Plaguefear @ Jun 29 2019 05:08pm)
What if the moon landing was real but the video was fake?
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/02/us/nasa-intern-moon-landing-footage-sothebys-auction-trnd/index.htmlQuote
On July 20, 1969, NASA put a man on the moon and captured it all on tape.
In 1976, the space agency unknowingly sold those tapes of original footage from the Apollo 11 lunar mission to a lucky intern who held onto them for decades. He never even knew their contents.
Now, NASA's blunder will belong to the highest bidder: the three surviving videotapes of the seminal moment in space exploration are up for auction--at a starting bid of $700,000.
According to Sotheby's, the tapes are worth up to $2 million. Bidding begins July 20, on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.
The two-and-a-half hours of footage provide the sharpest image of the history-making mission ever recorded, from Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon's surface to an interplanetary conversation with then-President Richard Nixon to the planting of the American flag.
The tapes were sold by accident to NASA intern Gary George in 1976, who purchased the set unknowingly among 65 boxes of videotapes at a government surplus auction for $217.77.
He resold most of the tapes to local TV stations for a profit but held onto three of them labeled "APOLLO 11 EVA | July 20, 1969 REEL 1 [-3]" at his father's suggestion, according to Soethby's.
It's wise he did: an EVA, or extravehicular activity, is also known as a spacewalk, and his tapes captured the first lunar EVA.
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