All over America, wackos are revving up their keyboards right now

Robert Mackey has an article about conspiracy theorists in The New York Times:

On Thursday, forty years to the day after the Apollo 11 spacecraft began its journey to the moon, NASA released what it called, “newly restored video from the 20 July 1969 live television broadcast of the Apollo 11 moonwalk.” The Associated Press video includes some of the restored video images of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon. The French news agency Agence France-Presse put out a selection of iconic images from the mission on Sunday before the new footage was released, and the Armstrong moonwalk is noticeably less clear.
In this video report from the BBC, Richard Nafzger, the NASA engineer who oversaw the television feed during the Apollo 11 mission, discusses the restoration and compares clips of the two astronauts on the moon’s surface before and after the clean-up work was done. According to an AP report, Mr. Nafzger, who was involved in the refurbishment, stressed that the footage wasn’t new, just improved: “There’s nothing being created; there’s nothing being manufactured.”
A news release from NASA explained where the original footage came from:

A team of Apollo-era engineers who helped produce the 1969 live broadcast of the moonwalk acquired the best of the broadcast-format video from a variety of sources for the restoration effort. These included a copy of a tape recorded at NASA’s Sydney, Australia, video switching center, where down-linked television from Parkes and Honeysuckle Creek was received for transmission to the U.S.; original broadcast tapes from the CBS News Archive recorded via direct microwave and landline feeds from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston; and kinescopes found in film vaults at Johnson that had not been viewed for 36 years.

The AP points out that the restoration company, Lowry Digital of Burbank, California, also refurbished Star Wars. As David Adam noted in The Guardian recently, since some of the conspiracy theories suggesting that the entire lunar landing was an elaborate hoax depend on close analysis of the original video— revealing, to some eyes, the presence of incongruous items, like a Coke bottle, in the background during the first moonwalk— NASA’s decision to use a Hollywood production company to clean up the footage is unlikely to set all minds at rest.
In his systematic attempt to debunk several of the leading conspiracy theories, Mr. Adam points to this footage, which does seem a little fishy:

Rico says a nice hoax of a hoax...