Footage of the first moon landing taken in 1969 during NASA’s Apollo 11 mission was purchased at auction through Sotheby’s for $1.82 million on Saturday.
The collection of footage totals about 2 hours and 24 minutes across three reels of film recorded at Mission Control in Houston, Texas. This footage is the “earliest, sharpest, and most accurate surviving video images of man’s first steps on the moon,” according to Sotheby’s.
The tapes include recordings of Mission Control as it waited for the lunar-surface camera to be deployed, as well as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s first steps on the moon and the moment that the astronauts planted the American flag on the surface. Minus the 9 minutes of Mission Control footage, the tapes contain the entire duration of the lunar extravehicular activity (EVA). Read more…
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