Lost Moon landing tapes discovered | COSMOS magazine

They were nearly thrown out with the rubbish. But a last minute search instead has scientists in Western Australia dusting off several boxes of ‘lost’ NASA tapes which record surface conditions on the Moon just after Neil Armstrong stepped into space history on 21 July 1969.

They have a SSTV player at Goddard that they can use to transfer the video to a more modern format. Here was a flyer that has more information about the tapes. It is good that they found them. They will have to upscale the resolution in order for the video to fit on modern television sets. Also the frame rate is not that of NTSC or HDTV so they will have to repeat frames which will make everything look like it is moving in slow motion, not that will be very noticeable because the astronauts don’t move all that fast when they are suited up. Still it looks like more detail can be brought out of the video now they found the originals.