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NASA release remastered moon landing footage

Neil Armstrong's historic moon landing will be shown in new light on Thursday when Nasa releases a new film of the first manned lunar excursion.

It has been restored and digitally enhanced using state-of-the-art technology and will be much clearer and less grainy than previously released footage of the 1969 landing.

It features 15 key moments from the historic lunar walk, and is part of Nasa's comprehensive Apollo 11 restoration project which is expected to be completed by Autumn.

The US space agency said it had used "the best available broadcast-format copies of the lunar excursion, some of which had been locked away for nearly 40 years."
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