NEWLY-RESTORED footage of the first moon walk was released yesterday to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the lunar landing.
Nasa’s refurbished videos capture details not clear from the original copies, some of which have not been viewed for decades.
The space agency employed a specialist Hollywood film restoration company to help clean up the images originally beamed to Earth from Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969.
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s first steps on the moon’s surface were captured by a single small video camera aboard the lunar module.
The videos were originally stored on giant reels of tapes that contained 15 minutes of video, along with 13 other channels of live data from the moon.
But, in the 1970s and 1980s, Nasa wiped and reused some of the tapes.
