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Misplaced?
According to a Reuters report the U.S. government has misplaced the original recording of the first moon landing, including astronaut Neil Armstrong's famous "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind", said Hautaloma, a NASA spokesman. "I wouldn't say we're worried — we've got all the data. Everything on the tapes we have in one form or another." NASA has retained copies of the television broadcasts and offers several clips on its web site. But those images are of lower quality than the originals stored on the missing magnetic tapes. Because NASA's equipment was not compatible with TV technology of the day, the original transmissions had to be displayed on a monitor and re-shot by a TV camera for broadcast. Hautaloma said it is possible the tapes will be unplayable even if they are found, because they have degraded significantly over the years — a problem common to magnetic tape and other types of recordable media.
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