Science News Summary: Video of Armstrong's first steps on moon on auction

Science News Summary: Video of Armstrong's first steps on moon on auction
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Sotheby's to auction rare videotape of Neil Armstrong's first steps on moon

A one-time NASA intern who bought a truckload of videotapes to resell them may end up a millionaire next month when Sotheby's auctions what it says is the only surviving original recording of man's first steps on the moon 50 years ago. In the years after the July 20, 1969 moon landing during the Apollo 11 mission, NASA was recording over its tapes or selling them to cut costs, said Gary George, who was a college student when he bought more than 1,100 reels of NASA videotape for about $218 at a government surplus auction in 1976.

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