Nasa released Thursday newly restored video from the july 20, 1969, live television broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk. The release commemorates the 40th anniversary of the first mission to land astronauts on the moon.
The original live video was ghostlike and grainy. NASA and a Hollywood film restoration company took television video copites of what Apollo 11 beamed to Earth on July 20, 1969, and made the pictures look sharper.
On july 20 1969, as Armstrong made the short step off the ladder of the Lunar Excursion Module onto the powdery lunar surface, a global community of hundreds of millions of people witnessed one of humankind’s most remarkable achievement live on television.
NASA Television will provide an HD video feed of the Apollo footage houly from 12-7 p.m on July 16 and 17. Each feed is one hour.
For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit,
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv