OT - Listen to a "live" radio broadcast of the Apollo 11 Mission, synced to be exactly 40

jessewvu

This is pretty cool. NASA is transmitting all radio communications it had from the Apollo 11 Mission, exactly 40 years ago. It is as if you were sitting on your couch listening live exactly 40 years ago, to the second.

Link to NASA Radio

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo11_radio/

bretts911

That is cool

intence

awesome thanks for sharing.

DieClash

Pretty cool! I remember watching the moon landing in 1969. For a 6-year old it was pretty boring and trivial. But the entire family was glued to the black & white console TV in our home and I knew it was important back then, but I just didn't grasp the reality of the moment until I was an adult.

And for those of you who actually follow the OPs link, all that static is all too familiar from my 6 YOA memory. It is boring even today! But, imagine how far we have progressed in the last 40 years! Amazing.

Thanks for the cool, memorable post jessewvu!

P.S. My grandmother-in-law at the time was frightened to death. She feared the astronauts would bring back some deadly virus from the Moon that would wreak havoc on civilization as we know it! Anyone else have similar memories from that era?

jacksongto

very cool thanks!!!

DieClash

An hour and a half later and I'm still listening! About an hour and 20 min. of static and 10 min. of actual talking. I'm still waiting for the Eagle has Landed. I am confused bout all this "Columbia this is Houston" crap. Why did the "Eagle" land when it was "Columbia" that landed. Maybe I'm confusing the fake Moon landing with thye Nevada/Arizona landing. "Papa decimal two, six decimal three on your LMA" statement. I think "papa" is the Arizona desert.

Mrs. DC wants to know "who's Roger Mike"?

commoncents05

DC, "Roger Mike" is probably "Roger, Mike". Mike Collins was one of the astronauts, and CAPCOM was probably saying Roger as an acknowledgment of what he said.

Columbia (and Mike Collins) was the Command Module that orbited the moon while the Eagle was the Lunar Module that landed on the moon. They were connected, and then the Eagle with Buzz and Niel broke off and went to the moon.

-Paul

DieClash

<< <i>DC, "Roger Mike" is probably "Roger, Mike". Mike Collins was one of the astronauts, and CAPCOM was probably saying Roger as an acknowledgment of what he said.

Columbia (and Mike Collins) was the Command Module that orbited the moon while the Eagle was the Lunar Module that landed on the moon. They were connected, and then the Eagle with Buzz and Niel broke off and went to the moon.

-Paul >>




Thanks Paul! Mrs. DC and I were discussing this and the broadcast finally mentioned "Eagle" separate from "Columbia" so we finally determined that "Eagle" was the LMV and "Columbia" the orbiting return vessel. But I must admit, 40 years later this is still some pretty kewl sh*t!!

-Kirk

morgansforever

20 minutes of blips and beeps.
How much longer till the landing?
Cool post.

SeattleSlammer

TIME has a fun cover article on the various lunar astronauts. Aldrin asks, "What does a man do for an encore?" Good question!

mozeppa

<< <i>20 minutes of blips and beeps.
How much longer till the landing?
Cool post. >>

jessewvu

Right now, it sounds like they are around 108 hours and 2 minutes (give or take). That corresponds to page 367 of 633 of the mission transcript, Click here to read

The "eagle has landed" was around 102 hours, page 337