apollo 11 orbited the moon 20 times before landing.
apollo 11 orbited the moon 20 times before landing.
how many times did apollo 11 orbit the moon before landing?
20
in july 2009, nasa indicated that it must have erased the original apollo 11 moon footage years ago so that it could re-use the tape. in december 2009 nasa issued a final report on the apollo 11 telemetry tapes. senior engineer dick nafzger, who was in charge of the live tv recordings during the apollo missions, was put in charge of the restoration project. after a three-year search, the "inescapable conclusion" was that about 45 tapes (estimated 15 tapes recorded at each of the three tracking stations) of apollo 11 video were erased and re-used, said nafzger. in time for the 40th anniversary of the apollo 11 landing, lowry digital had been tasked with restoring the surviving footage. lowry digital president mike inchalik said that, "this is by far and away the lowest quality" video the company has dealt with. nafzger praised lowry for restoring "crispness" to the apollo video, which will remain in black and white and contains conservative digital enhancements. the us$230,000 restoration project took months to complete and did not include sound quality improvements. some selections of restored footage in high-definition have been made available on the nasa website.
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in his august 28, 2009 associated press story appearing in the "brisbane times", toby sterling recounted how a spokesman for the dutch national museum, amsterdam's rijksmuseum, acknowledged on august 26, 2009, "that one of its prized possessions, a rock supposedly brought back from the moon by"…apollo 11… "us astronauts, is just a piece of petrified wood.."… "the museum acquired the rock after the death of former prime minister willem drees in 1988. drees received it as a private gift on october 9, 1969 from then-us ambassador j. william middendorf during a visit by the three apollo 11 astronauts, part of their ‘giant leap’ goodwill tour after the first moon landing." the museum acknowledged that though they did vet the moon rock they failed to double check it. the museum was under the incorrect belief that this moon rock was one of the 135 apollo 11 moon rocks that were presented to the nations of the world by the nixon administration. "it's a nondescript, pretty-much-worthless stone," said frank beunk, a geologist involved in the investigation. the genuine apollo 11 moon rock given to the dutch is in the inventory of a different museum in the netherlands, which is, in fact, one of the countries where the location of both the apollo 11 and apollo 17 gift rocks is known.
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