Apollo 11’s “live” moon landing was seen by the world, but the highest-quality original signal was recorded on rare telemetry tapes that later vanished inside NASA’s archives. Decades later, a long ...
In the early 2000s, NASA launched a quiet hunt for the original Apollo 11 slow scan TV tapes, hoping modern restoration could reveal sharper images than the degraded broadcast the world remembers.
Jack King, a NASA public affairs official who became the voice of the Apollo moon shots, died Thursday. He was 84. King counted down the historic launch of Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969. He also did the ...