Apollo 11 anniversary: how Hollywood helped NASA bring the moonwalk images to the public
Today, people around the world will be inspired by HD images from Apollo 11 and man’s first walk on the moon. And those images, recorded half a century ago, look as good as they do with some help from Hollywood.
Fortunately, Armstrong's "one small step," also made broadcasting history, transmitted to hundreds of millions of viewers. And so in 2009, an Apollo 11 restoration initiative began a with team of Apollo-era NASA engineers who helped produce the 1969 live broadcast of the moonwalk. They went out and acquired the best of the broadcast-format video from a variety of sources.
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