A giant screw-up for mankind

Catallarchy, citing January's Wired magazine, reports that NASA appears either to have lost or inadvertently destroyed the priceless master copies of the Apollo 11 moon landing footage. This leaves us with just the version that was shown on TV, which is so blurry that you can't really see what is going on (or at least that's how it appeared on my family's TV set in 1969).

A few years ago I also read somewhere that NASA had permitted the blueprints for the Saturn V rockets to be thrown out, meaning that it would be impossible to reactivate the production lines. This was said to be unfortunate because the Saturn V might have come in handy when the Space Shuttle turned out to be something of a dud.