2008年news broadcast(2/3)

Much of the world was watching on television when the commander of the Apollo-11 mission, Neil Armstrong, took the first steps on the moon in July, 1969. The pictures of that historic footstep and everything else [16:40.11]about that and subsequent Apollo moon landings were recorded on magnetic tapes at three NASA ground tracking stations around the world. ]The tapes were then shipped to a NASA operations center near Washington,the Goddard Space Flight Center. In late 1969, the space agency began transferring them and tens of thousands of tapes from other space missions to a nearby U.S. government archives warehouse.NASA says it asked for them back in the 1970s, but now does not know where they are.“I probably am overly sensitive to the word ‘lost’. I did not feel they are lost,”said Richard Nafzger, a Goddard Space Flight Center engineer who was in charge of television processing from all of NASA’s ground receiving sites. The space agency has authorized him to set aside his other duties for the foreseeable future and devote his time to the hunt for the tapes.Nafzger says they are stored somewhere.