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Originally Posted by ncodditems
side note the moon landing tapes are missing too .
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First of all...the tapes that contained the original SSTV transmissions contain SSTV and telemetry data. You would not only need something to read the information, but convert it from SSTV. So, basically, your TV and some VCR hacking isn't going to be able to do it. The format was 10fps @ 320 lines of resolution. It was also branched two ways...one went on to one-inch 14-track reel tape running at 120 ips. The other was sent to a montior, which had a TV camera pointed at it.
So the rumor was the tapes had been lost. Nasa didn't have them, and they were assumed to be somewhere in Australia.
However, a couple years ago Nasa admitted that they likely had obtained the tapes and recorded over them.