You ever hear the story about that? Apparently the footage was crystal clear when it got back down to Earth. But in a different format than the commercial TV networks. Oops, nobody thought of that. They literally pointed a TV camera at a monitor, which was showing a compressed feed. And those are the tapes that have survived.
No one currently knows for sure where the original tapes are, nor do they have any working equipment with which to scan the warehouse full of un-indexed tapes that might contain the originals.
Oh wait, holy crap. They found them! http://www.dvorak.or...40th-anniversary/
If that's what they have on the site linked at the top of this thread, it wasn't very noticeable.