I've heard rumblings about this for several days. CNN reports that NASA personnel can not locate recordings made during the original Apollo moon missions. They have been searching for them for over a year, now.
On July 20, 1969, with less than 40 seconds of fuel remaining, the Apollo 11 Lunar Module landed on the surface of the moon. A short time later, Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Lunar surface with these words, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." On December 11, 1972, Apollo 17 Mission Commander Eugene Cernan spoke the last words from the surface of the moon, "America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow." Some time after that last mission, recordings of those missions were held by the National Archives but were returned to NASA sometime in the late 1970s. NASA is now searching through paperwork to discover what may have happened to the recordings.
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I believe that it is important for NASA to find those important documents because they are recordings of a significant historical event. It’s not dispproving conspiracy theories rather the memory of one of mankind’s greatest feats. “America’s challenge of today has forged man’s destiny of tomorrow.”