The following story is fascinating, funny, and sad at the same time. The past few days we've all been remembering the legacy of Apollo 11. But one story I cannot get over is the fact that someone apparently erased the tape of our first landing on the Moon. How steps were not taken to save the tape for posterity is stunning! It just goes to show that even a world filled with rocket scientists can be devoid of common sense! Here's the Associated Press Story --------------------------------- "NASA Admits It Taped Over Moon Video" (Associated Press) NASA could put a man on the moon but didn't have the sense to keep the original video of the live TV transmission. In an embarrassing acknowledgment, the space agency said Thursday that it must have erased the Apollo 11 moon footage years ago so that it could reuse the videotape. But now Hollywood is coming to the rescue. The studio wizards who restored "Casablanca" are digitally sharpening and cleaning up the ghostly, grainy footage of the moon landing, making it even better than what TV viewers saw on July 20, 1969. They are doing it by working from four copies that NASA scrounged from around the world. "There's nothing being created; there's nothing being manufactured," said NASA senior engineer Dick Nafzger, who is in charge of the project. "You can now see the detail that's coming out."