> when the Apollo missions were going on, all they had were grainy TV broadcasts This reminds me of a not-so-fun fact where the original Apollo 11 data tapes w

> when the Apollo missions were going on, all they had were grainy TV broadcasts This reminds me of a not-so-fun fact where the original Apollo 11 data tapes were presumed saved elsewhere and were likely erased and recorded over. [0] The video that still remains from "one small step" is essentially a recording of a recording. Since the 10 FPS raw feed wasn't compatible with the TV broadcast standards at the time, they essentially pointed a normal TV camera at a TV displaying the source feed. However, some better quality broadcast recorded tapes were found, restored, and released in 2009. [1] [0] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/not-unsolved-mysteries-the-lost-apollo-11-tapes https://www.nasa.gov/feature/not-unsolved-mysteries-the-lost... [1] https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/hd/apollo11_hdpage.html https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/hd/apollo11_hdpage.html