Australia set to unveil rare moon landing footage
As Neil Armstrong descended the ladder of Apollo 11, Australian cameras were rolling while the U.S. scrambled for a signal. The result was an exceptional moment of space history captured for posterity and just now being released to the public. According to John Sarkissian, the Australian historian and astronomer who has been restoring the footage:
"NASA were using the Goldstone (California) station signal, which had its settings wrong, but in the signals being received by the Australian stations you can actually see Armstrong."
"In what people have seen before you can barely see Armstrong at all, you can see something black -- that was his leg."
Fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin was already scheduled to be the guest of honor at the awards ceremony of Australian Geographic magazine where the footage will be shown for the first time next week.
Full story at Yahoo News.
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