Apollo 11 50th Anniversary

[Bill (Smithville NJ)]

Several original tapes were auctioned yesterday at Sothebys for 1.8 million dollars. See following:

Apollo 11 Tapes

The article mentioned that the auction included a hard drive with digitized copy of the tapes. That means someone digitized the tapes. I wonder if the company or person doing that kept a copy.

What's amazing is that apparently NASA sold the tapes as surplus in 1976.

Of course, without actually watching the tapes, there really no way to know what they really are or their quality.

It's a shame NASA didn't come up with two million dollars and buy them back. I'm sure NASA has a fund somewhere they could have used.

Hopefully whoever bought them will make the video available someday.

Bill
Smithville, NJ