NASA loses 'one small step for man' recording

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," a NASA spokesman said on Monday.

Armstrong's famous space walk, seen by millions of viewers on July 20, 1969, is among transmissions that NASA has failed to turn up in a year of searching, spokesman Grey Hautaloma said.

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Seanie.

I believe the phrase I (and they) are looking for rhyms with Clucking Bell!

What a grade A woopsie!

BB

I heard about that today on the radio ! What fools!

Keith..

:lol:

Send Neil & co. back to tape it again

We've talked about this on other astronomy forums than Irish Astronomy. One problem is that fore decades we didn't fund the space effort. Boxes and stuff got moved, but there was nobody with the job of tracking where they went. They exist, somewhere, but it would take people, meaning money, to dig them up. They're going to stay lost.

Edit: Also, whoever originally moved the box has retired. It's been thirty something years.