You Won't Believe What NASA Lost!

The original tape recording of the first moon landing on July 20, 1969 in 
which astronaut Neil Armstrong says his famous line, "One small step for man, one 
giant leap for mankind," is missing. It wasn't stolen--nothing as nefarious 
as that. It's just lost. As in can't be found. Anywhere. <A HREF="http://portal.compuserve.com/wrap/linker.asp?floc=wn-cx&ref=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/exploration/mmb/19jul_seaoftranquillity.html">Find out why Neil 
Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin couldn't sleep on the Moon's Sea of Tranquility. </A>(NASA 
Web site) Reuters reports that NASA has "misplaced" the recording and can't 
find it after a full year of searching. A Smithsonian researcher told CNN's 
"American Morning" that there is a good chance it has been stored in some 
government warehouse that looks a lot like the last scene in "Raiders of the Lost Ark." 
But where exactly is a mystery. "We haven't seen them for quite a while. 
We've been looking for over a year and they haven't turned up," NASA spokesman 
Grey Hautaloma told Reuters of the missing tapes, which also contain data about 
the health of the astronauts and the condition of the spacecraft. And it's not 
just the tapes from that one voyage. Some 700 boxes of tapes containing the 
transmission from all the Apollo lunar missions are missing. "I wouldn't say 
we're worried--we've got all the data. Everything on the tapes we have in one 
form or another," Hautaloma assured Reuters. 


    



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