{"id":168783,"date":"2009-07-16T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?migration=converted-node-448131"},"modified":"2023-07-26T15:19:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T19:19:09","slug":"nasa-releases-restored-apollo-11-moonwalk-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/apollo\/apollo-11\/nasa-releases-restored-apollo-11-moonwalk-video\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Releases Restored Apollo 11 Moonwalk Video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong> This feature was originally published July 16, 2009. It is republished in conjunction with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/apollo50\">50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>July 16, 2009 feature:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA released Thursday newly restored video from the July 20, 1969, live television broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk. The release commemorates the 40th anniversary of the first mission to land astronauts on the moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The initial video release, part of a larger Apollo 11 moonwalk restoration project, features 15 key moments from the historic lunar excursion of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. A team of Apollo-era engineers who helped produce the 1969 live broadcast of the moonwalk acquired the best of the broadcast-format video from a variety of sources for the restoration effort. These included a copy of a tape recorded at NASA\u2019s Sydney, Australia, video switching center, where down-linked television from Parkes and Honeysuckle Creek was received for transmission to the U.S.; original broadcast tapes from the CBS News Archive recorded via direct microwave and landline feeds from NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston; and kinescopes found in film vaults at Johnson that had not been viewed for 36 years.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/apollo-11_image_comparison.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1379\" height=\"734\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/apollo-11_image_comparison.jpg?w=1379\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Comparison image showing video still of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin raising the American flag on the moon, before (left) and \" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/apollo-11_image_comparison.jpg 1379w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/apollo-11_image_comparison.jpg?resize=300,160 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/apollo-11_image_comparison.jpg?resize=768,409 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/apollo-11_image_comparison.jpg?resize=1024,545 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/apollo-11_image_comparison.jpg?resize=400,213 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/apollo-11_image_comparison.jpg?resize=600,319 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/apollo-11_image_comparison.jpg?resize=900,479 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/apollo-11_image_comparison.jpg?resize=1200,639 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1379px) 100vw, 1379px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p><b>Related:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/hd\/apollo11.html\">Apollo 11 Partial Restoration HD Videos<\/a><br>\n\u201cThe restoration is ongoing and may produce even better video,\u201d said Richard Nafzger, an engineer at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who oversaw television processing at the ground tracking sites during Apollo 11. \u201cThe restoration project is scheduled to be completed in September and will provide the public, future historians, and the National Archives with the highest quality video of this historic event.\u201d<br>\n <\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/restoration_apollo-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/restoration_apollo-11.jpg?w=2000\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Patrick Edquist, Project Manager of the Apollo 11 restoration at Digital Lowry, Burbank California.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/restoration_apollo-11.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/restoration_apollo-11.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/restoration_apollo-11.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/restoration_apollo-11.jpg?resize=1024,576 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/restoration_apollo-11.jpg?resize=1536,864 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/restoration_apollo-11.jpg?resize=400,225 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/restoration_apollo-11.jpg?resize=600,338 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/restoration_apollo-11.jpg?resize=900,506 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/restoration_apollo-11.jpg?resize=1200,675 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>NASA contracted with Lowry Digital of Burbank, Calif., which specializes in restoring aging Hollywood films and video, to take the highest quality video available from these recordings, select the best for digitization, and significantly enhance the video using the company\u2019s proprietary software technology and other restoration techniques.<br>\nUnder the initial effort, Lowry restored 15 scenes representing the most significant moments of the three and a half hours that Armstrong and Aldrin spent on the lunar surface. NASA released the video Thursday at a news conference at the Newseum in Washington.<br>\nOn July 20, 1969, as Armstrong made the short step off the ladder of the Lunar Excursion Module onto the powdery lunar surface, a global community of hundreds of millions of people witnessed one of humankind\u2019s most remarkable achievements live on television.<br>\nThe black and white images of Armstrong and Aldrin bounding around the moon were provided by a single small video camera aboard the lunar module. The camera used a non-standard scan format that commercial television could not broadcast.<br>\nNASA used a scan converter to optically and electronically adapt these images to a standard U.S. broadcast TV signal. The tracking stations converted the signals and transmitted them using microwave links, Intelsat communications satellites, and AT&T analog landlines to Mission Control in Houston. By the time the images appeared on international television, they were substantially degraded.<br>\nAt tracking stations in Australia and the United States, engineers recorded data beamed to Earth from the lunar module onto one-inch telemetry tapes. The tapes were recorded as a backup if the live transmission failed or if the Apollo Project needed the data later. Each tape contained 14 tracks of data, including bio-medical, voice, and other information; one channel was reserved for video.<br>\nA three-year search for these original telemetry tapes was unsuccessful. A final report on the investigation is expected to be completed in the near future and will be publicly released at that time.<br>\nInformation and materials for the July 16 media briefing on the Apollo footage can be found here:<br>\n<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/apollo\/40th\/apollo11_conference.html\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/apollo\/40th\/apollo11_conference.html<\/a><\/b><br>\nNASA Television will provide an HD video feed of the Apollo footage hourly from 12 \u2013 7 p.m. on July 16 and 17. Each feed is one hour. For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit:<br>\n<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/ntv\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/ntv<\/a><\/b><br>\nA copy of the newly restored scenes from the Apollo 11 restoration effort can be found at:<br>\n<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/hd\/apollo11.html\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/hd\/apollo11.html<\/a><\/b><br>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s note: This feature was originally published July 16, 2009. It is republished in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. July 16, 2009 feature: NASA released Thursday newly restored video from the July 20, 1969, live television broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk. 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