Published July 17, 2009, 06:54 AM
NASA lost moon footage, but Hollywood restores it
NASA could put a man on the moon but didn’t have the sense to keep the original video of the live TV transmission. In an embarrassing acknowledgment, the space agency said Thursday that it must have erased the Apollo 11 moon footage years ago so that it could reuse the videotape. But now Hollywood is coming to the rescue.By: By Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press, The Jamestown Sun
