News that these analog data tapes were missing emerged on August 5, 2006, when the print and online versions of "The Sydney Morning Herald" published a story with the title "One giant blunder for mankind: how NASA lost moon pictures". The missing tapes were among over 700 boxes of magnetic data tapes recorded throughout the Apollo program that have not been found. On August 16, 2006 NASA announced its official search, saying, "The original tapes may be at the Goddard Space Flight Center ... or at another location within the NASA archiving system" and "NASA engineers are hopeful that when the tapes are found they can use today's digital technology to provide a version of the moonwalk that is much better quality than what we have today." NASA also had ongoing research reasons for finding these higher-resolution tapes, as the Constellation program shared some similar tasks with the original Apollo program.