The following is additional information that Bill Wood is seeking on the missing Apollo 11 tapes. Contact Bill at his email address that follows the below message if you have any information on this matter. --------------------- We have received several very good leads that allowed us to find the people who set up and operated the tape storage facility in Bldg B at the GCF. When the CSOC contract started in 1998 the building was cleaned out. Many of the tapes were sent on to other storage areas by GSFC. Some of the tapes from the Space Shuttle era were recycled. However, no one has been able to say whether or not Apollo era tapes were ever there in the 1994 to 1998 lifetime of the facility. So we are now trying to connect the dots in the 1970 to 1975 time frame. To help us we need to see if any of the BFEC people who frequent the web site can shed any light on the following things. 1. The name of anyone who still has copies of the GSFC Apollo Network Operations Directive (NOD) that covers the Apollo 11 mission. 2. The name of anyone who worked in Glenn Dale Building III Tape Storage Facility in the 1969 to 1980 time frame. Someone who knows Irene Collins, a librarian in Glenn Dale III. 3. The name of anyone who knows where Apollo era telemetry tapes were used or where such tapes were kept in the 1970 to 1980 time frame. 4. The name of anyone who saw Apollo era telemetry tapes after about 1980. 5. Anyone who might know if BFEC/AlliedSignal/Honeywell stored Apollo era telemetry tapes at any time between 1969 and the present time. We believe that the stations sent original Apollo data tapes to GSFC Shipping and Receiving during the Apollo missions. We think that the tapes were turned over to the Data Services Section, code 821.4, for temporary retention in Glenn Dale Building III until all "experimenters" got the dubs of tapes they needed. After about six to twelve months the tape were sent to the National Records Center in Suitland MD for long term storage. A number of the tapes were recalled from the NRC and may have been returned to the NRC under later accession numbers. Here are the most current links that describe what we are up to: The Australian May 2006 Parkes Observatory paper: http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/Apollo_11/tapes/Search_for_SSTV_Tapes.pdf The search website: http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/Apollo_11/tapes/index.html NASA Hq Tape Search web page: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo_tapes.html Link to PDF searchable copies of GSFC Phone Books (1969-2000) (work in progress): http://www.jplrecclubs.caltech.edu/radio/archive/GSFC-Phone-Books/OCR/GSFC-PB.htm Bill Wood bill-wood@san.rr.com

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