Keep your eye on the NASA site this Thursday, July 16. A press release today says they’re going to hold a press conference to release new footage from Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 moonwalk. (Poor Michael Collins, orbiting the moon in the Command Module at the time. He never gets any credit.)
Some of this footage has been lost for almost 40 years, so this is probably going to be the best look at the moonwalk any of us have ever had. Even back when it was “live on TV”, the quality of the broadcast and people’s TV sets in 1969 was a lot worse than even today’s middle-of-the-road web video, let alone HDTV.
Hard to believe that the 16th will be the 40 year anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11, and the 20th will be 40 years since we actually walked on the moon for the first time. It’s even harder to believe we haven’t sent anyone back since 1972. Imagine where we’d be today if we had continued regular manned missions to the moon over the last 37 years?
