I know I have said before in this thread that I 100% believe
that we went to the moon, BUT......
there is a very interesting read on the internet about the
'Lost Apollo 11 full res tapes', it makes fascinating reading.
To summarise: At the time of the moon landing it was a huge
logistical excercise to not only get a very reliable video feed
from the moon for the moment of the first step on the moon,
but to also send it to all parts of the world and 'down-convert'
it to all of the different video formats the world had: PAL , NTSC etc.
To do this job, one tracking station in Australia had the job of
receiving the feed, converting it and sending it to the rest of the
world. Remember the fillum, the Dish?
Most of the conversion processes had a detrimental effect on the
quality of the feed coming out the other end, but this catch-22
situation was deemed necessary so that the world still got to
see this momentous occassion live.
NASA, of course, still recorded on magnetic tape the full resolution
feed for history and this job was also done by the Aussie receiving
station engineers.
These full res tapes are all stored in the USA in a national archive
and exist for all of the moon landings.
But the most important one...Apollo 11 is missing.
And all the world has EVER seen of this moment is the crappy low
res version....Have you ever seen the full resolution version...no
one has.
Now, if I was telling this whole story you would probably just write me
off as a conspiracy nut....a typical UFO quack type.
But imagine if this whole story was written by the very team of engineers
that received that feed in Australia in 1969...
It's a good read.
http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/Apollo_11/tapes/
Steve