NASA has paid millions to buy Armstrong

This took place at an auction in the state of New York and was broadcast on the social networking site of Sotheby's House for public auctions.

Sell ​​in error

• In 1976, the US agency had mistakenly sold the recordings to mechanical engineer Gary George for a whopping $ 217.
• George, a university student when he bought 1,100 videos at NASA, said the US Space Agency re-recorded or sold videos to cut costs in the years following the first landing of the NASA. July 20, 1969.
• George, who is now 65, added that he did not think the tapes had any value and sold about eight to the television channels to re-record them at $ 50 per cbadette.
• George said that he did not have the equipment needed to watch the tapes, but after talking to NASA and trying to send them back to the space agency, he could view the pictures for the first time in a California studio.
• It turned out that three of these tapes were probably priceless. One of them records the tracks of astronaut Neil Armstrong on the moon and his famous saying: "It's a small step for the man, but a giant step for humanity."
• The recordings also show the call of the astronaut with his then president, Richard Nixon, and expect the bands to be sold up to $ 2 million. at an auction in New York on July 20, said spokeswoman Sally Fryer.

recordings

• The recordings are three cbadettes lasting two and a half hours.
• Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first to set foot on the surface of the moon, is seen in the scene, as well as a speech by former US President Richard Nixon.
• NASA admitted in 2006 that it did not find the original footage of the Apollo 11 vehicle when it landed on the moon.

First landing on the moon

• The United States celebrates on July 20, 1969, on the occasion of the Apollo 11 mission, the 50th anniversary of the first landing on a moon.
• Armstrong died in 2012 for 82 years.