Russian Official Proposes International Investigation Into U.S. Moon Landings

_Tombstone_

OK, he's not saying they didn't get to the moon, they're getting a bit hissy at the US investigating their FIFA bid and this is the comeback.

An international investigation could help solve the mystery of the disappearance of film footage from the original moon landing in 1969, or explain where the nearly 400 kilograms of lunar rock reportedly obtained during several such missions between 1969 and 1972 have been spirited away to, Markin suggested.

"We are not contending that they did not fly [to the moon], and simply made a film about it. But all of these scientific — or perhaps cultural — artifacts are part of the legacy of humanity, and their disappearance without a trace is our common loss. An investigation will reveal what happened," Markin wrote.

U.S. space agency NASA admitted in 2009 that the original recordings of the first moon landing had been erased, but said they had managed to remaster the original television broadcast of the landing, Reuters reported at the time.

Of the approximately 380 kilograms of moon rock said to have been obtained during manned U.S. moon landings, the bulk is stored in the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Texas, though samples can be seen on display in various museums around the world.

But, why would they erase the landing???

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/mobile/news/article/russian-official-proposes-international-investigation-into-us-moon-landings/523799.html

shedweller

I vaguely recall there being something about the tapes costing a lot and reusing them being necessary to keep costs down. Still though, you'd think someone at the time would point out that what was on these tapes would make them priceless!

namloc1980

shedweller wrote: »

I vaguely recall there being something about the tapes costing a lot and reusing them being necessary to keep costs down. Still though, you'd think someone at the time would point out that what was on these tapes would make them priceless!

Different times. I think they put much more stock in the high quality photos that were taken over the grainy video footage.

OU812

Some of them went into landfill in dunsink