I was 11 years old when I was allowed to stay up late to watch Neil Armstrong's first Moon walk. My parents were throwing a Moon Walk party that had nothing to do with Michael Jackson, and there must have been 30 people huddled around our little TV to watch that black and white grainy video of Armstrong taking that "one small step for a man."
Even then I wondered why the picture was so poor. Replays I have seen since have been the same. Turns out that what we saw was a picture of a picture. Literally a camera focused on the screen at NASA HQs which was in turn a picture relayed from Australia. A direct feed of the original picture was technically not possible at the time.
For nearly five decades it has been thought that the original, much sharper video, was lost. But apparently it was just recently found in a basement store room in Australia and NASA is about to release it. For the first time Americans will see the first Moon walk with a new clarity.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532508,00.html
"A man never drinks anything that a plant lives in" --DBone (A Real Man).
http://vimeo.com/4938173
