In 1976 He Bought 1,150 NASA Tapes for only $200 and 32 Years Later He Discovered that Three Were Worth 1.82 Million.
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Gary George's story is sure to be very surprising to the vast majority, but it is quite true and shows how something that is bought with little value, can be revalued, and in what way, years later. We have to go back to 1976 when George was still an Engineering student and had realized ... Continue reading "In 1976 he purchased 1,150 NASA tapes for only $200 and 32 years later discovered that three were worth 1.82 million"
One batch of coils purchased $217 at a surplus sale contained Apollo 11's magnetic tapes. Three of them reached $1.82 million at auction, more than forty years later.
An engineering student paid $217.77 for 1,150 reels of surplus NASA tape in 1976 and kept three boxes marked Apollo 11 — while NASA later erased and reused the original moonwalk telemetry tapes during a tape shortage, his three first-generation recordings sat untouched for 32 years and eventually sold for $1.82 million
A broke engineering student's $217 surplus auction gamble became the most pristine record of the Apollo 11 moonwalk—one that NASA itself had destroyed.
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