Sunday, 17 February 2008

nasa cant find historic moon landing



NASA can't find historic moon landing film

NASA has built rockets, sent spacecrafts to the outer reaches of our

solar system and sent men to the moon but it can't find the original

film footage of man's first steps on the moon. From BBC:

The tapes appear to have been sent to the US National Archives,

before being returned to Nasa, which stored them at its Goddard

Space Flight Center in Maryland.

"I just think this is what happens when you have a large government

bureaucracy that functions for decade after decade," said Keith

Cowing, editor of the website Nasa Watch.

"It's not malicious or intentional, but I think it's unfortunate

that Nasa doesn't have maybe just one more person whose job it is

to look back at its history."

A Nasa spokesman said: "We're trying to track them down through the

paperwork created at the time - but it's 35 years ago, so it's a


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