NASA's confusing action when destroying hundreds of tapes from the Apollo era

The destruction of hundreds of mysterious tapes and two computers from NASA's Apollo Moon landing was thought to be a covert act.

A recent document published online on the internet shows that most of the above tapes were wiped out in 2015 are not marked and classified.

However, some of them are certainly related to Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 - NASA's mission to explore Jupiter and Saturn during the Apollo landing on the Moon. This finding raises suspicions by conspiracy theorists that NASA is hiding something.

The number of old tapes and computers stored in the basement for decades has been destroyed last year - (Photo: NASA).

These files are stored in the basement of an IBM engineer for more than 50 years. He used to work for NASA in the 1960s and 70s. All documents over 40 years old were in very poor condition, but there are still signs of NASA Goddard Space Center and Jet Engine Laboratory. .

When he died, the heir handed the files to a scrap dealer at the end of 2015. Just before Christmas 2015, the scrap dealer contacted NASA to return these documents.

'Please tell NASA these things are not stolen ,' the scrap seller recounts his successor: "They belong to IBM Allegheny Center Pittsburgh, PA 15212. During 1968-1972, IBM had intended to dispose of these things, the engineer asked if he could keep them and was approved '.

Later, NASA staff came to inspect the records and found that most of the tapes were from 1967 to 1974. NASA staff told the family of engineers who had died that they would must destroy computers as well as documents because they have no historical value and are too hard to recover.

The space agency said the documents were destroyed because they had no historical value and were too difficult to recover - (Photo: NASA).

One official ordered the destruction of all the tapes: "There is no evidence that this document is of historical significance . I suggest dealing with the immediate destruction of all magnetic tapes." The handling has been done according to NASA's Procedural Requirements - Nasa Procedural Requirements.

Recovering data stored on tape is expensive, according to a NASA architect, and there is no guarantee that something valuable can be recovered from the "mold" tape .

The information has attracted the attention of many people, including conspiracy theorists questioning why engineers care much about files if they really do not make sense.

In addition, one of the computers, so heavy that they needed a crane to pull out of the basement, labeled the contract number - NAS5-2154 - which was not mentioned in any US government file.