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Lost Moon-Landing Tape Recovered, Restored

Posted by timothy on from the listening-to-history dept.

esome writes: "Video clips of American astronauts bouncing around on the moon will never get old as far as I'm concerned. Now we've got one more to drool over thanks to Kipp Teague who has worked hard to archive Apollo stuff on his site. The BBC has an article on it here."

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  1. Audio, not Video by 4im · · Score: 3, Informative

    Where in BBC's article did you read anything
    about video? This is an audio recording, *not*
    video!

  2. Listen to a piece of history (the rescued tape). by antdude · · Score: 4, Informative

    In case people overlook the audio link on BBC's link (top right), you can listen to the rescued tape (direct link to RealPlayer. To me, it sounds very good! The first few minutes is blank/static, but the fun part begins after that. The whole audio is about 10:51.3 minutes. :)

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  3. Video and Audio by richie2000 · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Apollo archive has lots of MPEG video clips as well.

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  4. A document crying out for SMIL by Boiotos · · Score: 2, Informative
    Very exciting stuff: one of the flight engineers shouts 'GO!' with such palpable joy. Thirty years later and I'm still one of the guys "turning blue."

    This document could be all the more interesting and useful if it were marked up with SMIL. Using this, we could synchronize the display of a transcript, including the names of all the speakers. Last fall at the Virginia Center for Digital History I saw a demo of a similar treatment of some audio surrounding Kennedy's administration and the Cuban Missile Crisis.