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Student Bought Scrap Tapes for $217, Sold Them for $2 Million

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In 1976, a NASA Intern Purchased 1,150 Magnetic Tapes From the Agency for $200 - Thirty-Two Years Later, He Discovered that the Content of Three of Them Was Worth More than $1.8 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.

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Student Bought Scrap Tapes for $217, Sold Them for $2 Million

The incredible story of how a student purchase saved the sharpest footage of the historic moon walk after the space agency overwrote its own archives.

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Student Bought Scrap Tapes for $217, Sold Them for $2 Million

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In 1976, a NASA Intern Purchased 1,150 Magnetic Tapes From the Agency for $200 - Thirty-Two Years Later, He Discovered that the Content of Three of Them Was Worth More than $1.8 Million.

Student Bought Scrap Tapes for $217, Sold Them for $2 Million

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In 1976, a NASA Intern Purchased 1,150 Magnetic Tapes From the Agency for $200 - Thirty-Two Years Later, He Discovered that the Content of Three of Them Was Worth More than $1.8 Million.

Student Bought Scrap Tapes for $217, Sold Them for $2 Million

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