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NASA Releases Thousands of Hours of Apollo 11 Mission Audio (thehill.com)

Posted by msmash on from the for-the-record dept.

NASA and the University of Texas have teamed up to digitize 19,000 hours of recordings from the Apollo 11 mission that landed the first two people on the moon. From a report: The audio was uploaded to the Internet Archive, a nonprofit website that hosts digitized versions of cultural artifacts. "One of the things that comes across is that each of the people working for NASA is proud of what they do. They were always working collaboratively," John Hansen, a speech researcher at the university and principal investigator for the project, told NBC News.

2 of 98 comments (clear)

  1. Re:19,000 hours? does not compute by CohibaVancouver · · Score: 3, Informative

    I wonder where the rest of it is coming from.

    From -

    https://www.sciencealert.com/n...

    The hours and hours of audio encompasses every single communication between the astronauts, mission control and back-room support staff during the entire mission.

  2. More approachable version by Brett+Buck · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try here:

    https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/

    and here:

    https://history.nasa.gov/afj/

          where they have listened extensively to many of the tapes, and transcribed and added explanations. If you want to know what was going on live, that is the place to start.