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NASA erased the original moon landing tapes

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You'd think the greatest achievement in human history would be backed up to the cloud. In a breathtaking display of bureaucratic incompetence, NASA erased and reused the original magnetic tapes of Apollo 11's moonwalk in the 1980s to save money on data storage. The grainy footage we see today is just a broadcast recording of a monitor playing the feed.

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