Jul 17th 2009 By Jeremy Taylor

Conspiracy Theorists Rejoice -- NASA Lost Moon Walk Footage

Yesterday, NASA came out with the stunning announcement that they had accidentally erased all the original footage of Neil Armstrong's moon walk. Why? The space agency apparently had a videotape shortage in the '70s and '80s and taped over all of their best evidence of Apollo 11's historic mission.

We've always been fairly accepting of the official story on the moon landing, but seriously?! They TAPED OVER IT? Shouldn't there be somebody at NASA whose job it is to make sure nobody tapes over the irreplaceable footage at the epicenter of a hotly debated historic event?

In what is sure to further fan the flames of conspiracy, NASA recently paid a team of Hollywood technical experts $230,000 to make a cleaned-up version (pictured) of the moon landing gleaned from four different recordings of the TV coverage at the time.

Check out another still from this sketchy restoration after the jump and let us know if this fishy story has made a conspiracist out of you.

Tags: conspiracy theory - ConspiracyTheory - moon landing - MoonLanding - NASA

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Sunday 19 July

By Jam

Neutral

My heart tells me to believe in the moon landing but now im older, my head tells me it that its the biggest hoax ever. I think anybody who takes in the official line wants to believe in these things because the opposite is unthinkable.

A similar hoax happened 130 years ago when the new york sun ran a story claiming that scientists found life on the moon (unicorns, man-bats..etc) and the whole world fell for it. I think we should stop calling the moon landing a conspiracy bc it didnt happen.

Sunday 19 July

By First

Neutral

I lol'd

Sunday 19 July

By Jem

Neutral

The moon landings (6 in total) were probably the last positive human acts of the 20th Century.
The further away in time we go from these historic events, the more impossible they seem.

Sunday 19 July

By Carl Jarrell

Highest Rank

the moon landing vehicle had to be traveling at a very high speed, it had to turn around and go in feet first, it had to have a huge thrust to cushion it's landing, yet the surface underneath the landing vehicle showed no evidence of a thrust, yet the astronaut left a huge & deep track where he stepped also the landing feet was sitting comfortable on the moon surface without a bit of dust or dirt on the feet pads. I think I saw an empty winston cigarette pack on the surface of the so called moon.

Tuesday 21 July

By JJReinem

Neutral

Right, because the tons of lunar regolith brought back is just like any other non-eroded cancer causing sand we can find in the world, right?
There is not a single argument made in favor of the moon landings being faked that hasn't been debunked numerous times by reputable independent sources. Also, with respect, the argument that Jam makes doesn't really support the conspiracy theorists' arguments nearly as well as it does NASA's. The idea of the moon landing being faked has virtually no evidence in its favor.
Oh, and to counter the arguments about there not being any evidence of thrust: you don't fire a rocket engine to brake your descent when you're that close to the ground unless you want to cook your landing vehicle. The LEM fired its braking thrusters earlier in its decent when there was no risk of it being deflected up or outwards where it might damage the vehicle. It then used shock absorbers (which, by the way, didn't fully compress, leading to the ladder and the door being higher off the ground than it was supposed to be).

Wednesday 22 July

By Stupidfuture

Neutral

Here's another possible explanation:
http://stupidfuture.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/nasa-reel-blooper-what-really-happened/

Monday 27 July

By Master Wang

Neutral

With all today's modern marvels like HAARP, the ability to cook up the swine flu, heart transplants, RFIDs and aircraft's that travel 6000+ mph take off and land on a normal runway there's no doubt in my mind that man has made it to the moon. The real issue at hand is actually "when we made it". Over time we've all come to terms with the fact that NASA is a bag less super hover when it comes to tax payers money, with that being said think about what was going on around the same time. In current times it has become normal to speculate instead of research and review. If we look back at the time period anyone can see we were in a race of pride with the Russians and much like any of America's beloved attorney's....there was no way they were going to tell us we weren't going to win after we greased there pockets for so long. So in the end the question remains "did we go to the moon?".....yes, but were we the first? It really doesn't seem that way but they'll never tell us and now that you've had some time to think about it "do you still care?.....No.

Sunday 16 August

By stigger the dump

Neutral

i dont think they had the technology at that time to go to the moon land and come back.and dont forget the space race with the the big red 1.

Wednesday 07 September

By John Kinnane

Neutral

I hope all the drop kicks who believed the moon landings were a conspiracy will have a rethink now there is photographic proof of foot prints on the moon surface.