The Moonlanding Gets Accidentally Taped Over
After years of speculation, NASA finally admitted back in 2009 that the tapes of the moon landing are missing. Apparently, they accidentally taped over the moon landing. The SSTV on-board the Apollo 11 was used to record the moon landing tapes. In the early ‘80s, the raw footage on the telemetry tapes disappeared. Investigators discovered that the content of the Apollo 11 SSTV tapes had been erased and the tapes were reused. At the time, this was standard procedure at NASA. Now, only the Super 8 film which was taken of the SSTV transmission and NTSC video are left.
The Moonlanding Gets Accidentally Taped Over
12 Publishers Turn Down Harry Potter
J.K. Rowling, the famed writer of the Harry Potter book series, pitched her book to 13 different publishers, but 12 of them rejected it. The last publisher, Bloomsbury, decided to give her a shot. The author now has a net worth of hundreds of millions of dollars, while Harry Potter has become a household name, with the franchise worth $25 billion. However, Bloomsbury had a disappointing request – they asked her to use “J.K.” instead of Joanne, her first name, because they were worried young boys wouldn’t read a book written by a female author. She agreed to the request.
12 Publishers Turn Down Harry Potter
