Wired News: The Lost Lunar Landing Tapes — NASA puts a man on the moon — then loses the videotape. A grizzled crew of ex-rocket jockeys goes on a star-crossed mission to find it.
Amid concerns about lost technology, unreadable formats and data integrety, it’s often the human element — the lost or forgotten record and carelessness — that’s as much the risk. Also this story shows that old memories can sometimes yield the best clues.