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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. Great Recordings by CleverNickName · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This audio is just amazing...in a week filled with despair and sadness, it's a welcome break to hear something so optimistic and uplifting. It reminds me of this record set I had when I was in college, called "I can hear it now". It was a 3 or 4 LP set of important events that happened in the 60s, narrated by Walter Cronkite. It had the "We choose to go to the moon" speech, the assassination of JFK, MLK, lots of stuff from Vietnam...but the thing that I played over and over again were the recordings from the Apollo missions. Something about that *beep* and the courage in their voices...the sense that I get, just from listening to them talk, was that every one of those men knew they were doing something incredible. I'm really glad this story got posted.