Photos: How the (missing) Apollo tapes were made

More than 2,000 boxes of videotapes were sent from Goddard to a National Archives facility in late 1969, and the Apollo 11 tapes may have been in that lot. Many, but not all, of the boxes were returned to Goddard in the next decade. The space agency says it began an "informal search" for the tapes about 18 months ago. Officials must be hoping the boxes that contain them--each box holds five tapes--were properly and legibly labeled.

Photo by NASA