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Search is on for original Apollo 11 footage

On July 20, 1969, astronauts first landed on the moon. On that day, a special video camera designed by Westinghouse, hardened to survive the harsh lunar atmosphere, sent high-quality images of the event back to Earth. Unfortunately, these exact images were not the ones viewed by millions of people around the globe. The video images produced by the camera were incompatible with commercial television broadcasting equipment, so NASA engineers used a simple workaround. They aimed a commercial TV camera at the display feed and, voila, the lower quality, ghostly images of Neil Armstrong stepping out of the Eagle lander that were are so familiar with, were transmitted. The high quality feeds were not seen outside of Mission Control in Houston.

In the ensuing years, these high quality tapes were moved from one storage facility to another and subsequently lost. NASA is trying to find them as the magnetic tape on which they are stored degrades over time. Similar NASA tapes have turned up in the garages of one time NASA engineers as well as the Goddard Space Flight Center (where the collection is supposed to be housed). So, do you know where the Moon Landing tapes are? If so, NASA wants to know.