Can't find much information about who it was sold to, but my goodness I hope the footage gets released into the Public Domain. They're the best quality recordings known to exist anywhere. Honestly I'd love to see Archive.org get their hands on the tapes at least long enough to digitize them at high quality.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/20/apollo-11-moon-landing-tapes-sell-at-sothebys-for-1point8-million.html
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-20/apollo-11-moonwalk-tapes-sell-for-1-8-million-at-auction
https://bgr.com/2019/07/01/moon-tape-auction-sothebys-apollo-nasa/
About the missing tapes, mentions the first generation tapes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes#Search_for_the_missing_tapes
Hey all,
Apologies for a few bugs that crept into the iOS 15 update, programming with little sleep isn't the best combination, but everything should be fixed now.
There were two super annoying ones in particular around Pro features not activating if you hadn't bought Pro separately, but that should be (actually) fixed now.
There was also a Face ID/Touch ID bug that has been fixed now. As an apology for that one because I know it probably drove a lot of you crazy, I finally added the much requested feature of being able to add a time delay to Face ID/Touch ID, so you can set it so if you're away from the app just for 30 seconds to respond to a text or something when you come back you won't have to reauthenticate, it's only after the amount of time you specify. (1 minute, 5 minutes, or 1 hour)
Also fixes some stuff around some missing widgets. There's still a few things I want to fix, like the search bar background color being a bit weird sometimes, will have an update out for that alongside a TestFlight update shortly.
Hope that convenience over times adds up for the lack of convenience over the last day or so.
- Christian
So UAD recently released the solo (which is essentially a replacement of the arrow if I am not mistaken?) and with that I assume many people may be inclined to purchase one.
If this is you (or one of your friends) you should know that UAD has a refer a friend program where you and your friend both get a free plugin from a very long and very dope list, full info:
https://www.uaudio.com/refer/
Please note that is not my referral link (that is just the landing page with all the info) and I am not associated with UAD. I just think it's a shame to not collect on a free plugin if the option is there for you. When I purchased my apollo twin I picked up the 1176 collection, and my buddy who referred me snagged the fairchild collection. Pretty sweet deal if you're thinking of purchasing a UAD interface
Kneel in front of me.
I understand the low-quality footage was transmitted from Austrailia's ground site to Mojave Desert, California where video was reformatted for broadcast and transmitted over phone lines to Houston. Nearly all the video quality was lost, turning clear crisp images into gray blobs and oddly moving shapes. This is all we have.
> They spent weeks searching in the vast National Records Center in Suitland, where the tapes once were housed. They came up empty until finding documentation that some 26,000 boxes of Apollo tapes were requested by Goddard officials between the early 1970s and the early 1980s. Considering that the 45 videotapes from Apollo 11 would have been stored in just nine of those boxes, the odds against finding them were daunting.
> Back at Goddard they found no trace of the tapes, nor of anyone who knew much about them. Someone at Goddard forwarded the Apollo tapes to other storage, or had them destroyed, but Nafzger and Lebar have had little luck identifying who that might be. The fact that all this happened about 30 years ago made the task more difficult, since some of the most likely decision makers are deceased.
Seems a commenter below has said the tapes have been reportedly recorded over.
I wonder how because the tapes in question were only used for Apollo 11. Apollo 11 recorded the full-spectrum radio downlink to tape. They used special machines to spit out separate video, telemetry, biomedical sensor, and voice. There is only 1 machine left that can read this format and it has been put in special storage from the Data Evaluation Lab at Goddard. It was 7 feet tall and 12 feet wide.
Future missions separated the data from the radio downlink before recording the spectrum to tape in separate channels on more common tape formats. This required no specialized equipment to read the tapes, allowing the tapes to be passed between facilities more easily.
Including Frank Sinatra's version of "Fly Me to the Moon", a Glen Campbell song, 2 Les Baxter songs, and song by Blood, Sweat & Tears
