Correction — August 13, 2006 This article incorrectly reports that magnetic tapes of first moon landing and five other Apollo missions are missing. This is erroneous. Only the magnetic data tapes containing the recorded transmission from the moon’s surface are missing. The data on these tapes includes the original slow-scan TV signals, plus voice and […]
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