A NASA Fellow Paid $217 for 1,150 Old Tapes and Three Kept the Apollo 11 Moonwalk.

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How much is a lot of videotapes that nobody wants? In June 1976, at an auction of surplus material from the American government, they were worth exactly $217.77 (about 189 euros). That paid Gary George, an engineering student who was interning at NASA, for a lot of about 1,150 magnetic tape coils. ... Continue reading "A NASA fellow paid $217 for 1,150 old tapes and three kept the moon ride of Apollo 11."