Forty years have past since the first man landed on the surface of moon on 20 July 1969. It was a historic moment for the entire human race. It is a glorious feat that should be viewed again and again as it upholds the unyielding spirit of human beings. However, the video that captured those rare moments, when Neil Armstrong stepped out of the lunar excursion, were so poor in quality that it had almost become impossible for common people to figure out what is going on the screen. NASA was well aware of this disconcerting issue and that why it had undertaken an ambitious plan to restore those rare moments with the latest technological know how. It is really amazing to witness how advance video restoration technology like photo restoration technique can bring life back to a worn out video or pictures. Though NASA has to spend a whopping $230,000 on this restoration project, it has offered a unique opportunity to the entire human race to witness how a history has been made forty years back.

The original video footage was in a non standard format which cannot be broadcasted in TV channels. When this original video project was beamed back to earth, it had been converted into a TV friendly system. However, this conversion had degraded the quality of the original video footage drastically to mere movements of some shadowy figures. Three years have been spent in this project, which was headed by engineer Richard Nafzger and his team. They have made diligent search to collate footages from various sources such as Nasa’s achieve vaults, CBS television studios of Houston etc. So far Nasa has succeeded in releasing 15 key moments from its ambitious restoration project, which is supposed to be completed on September 2009. Just check out this video, which is far better than those blurred images.

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