In 2006, NASA admitted to deliberately deleting the Apollo 11 backups. Not to conceal their contents. But to cut costs. The 700 boxes of recorded transmissions fell foul of a 1980s project to wipe and ...

Astronaut Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., lunar module pilot of the first lunar landing mission, is beside the U.S. flag during an Apollo 11 moon walk. The Lunar Module (LM) is on the left, and the ...

More than four decades after the Apollo 11 moon landing, a cloth bag full of souvenirs brought back by astronaut Neil Armstrong has come to light.

It has been revealed that tapes containing the original, high-quality transmission of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing were wiped after being quietly shelved in an unmarked storage area by NASA.

This converted version was what the public saw at home in 1969, which was of lower quality than the video on the magnetic tapes but 'good enough' at the time, according to Dodd.