[meteorite-list] Audio Files from Apollo

[David Pensenstadler]

Dear List:

Check out the link below for unheard audio from the Apollo missions.

Dave

July 15, 2009

John Yembrick 
Headquarters, Washington      
202-358-0602 
john.yembrick-1 at nasa.gov 

James Hartsfield 
Johnson Space Center, Houston 
281-483-5111 
james.a.hartsfield at nasa.gov 

MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-131

APOLLO 11 CONVERSATIONS EARTH DIDN'T HEAR NOW ONLINE AT NASA.GOV

HOUSTON -- You're in a spacecraft, on a mission to land on the moon 
for the first time in history, and the microphone to Earth is off. 
What do you say? 

Now you can listen in on a NASA Web site and find out. 

As Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins flew on Apollo 11 to a 
lunar landing in July 1969, the world heard communications between 
the crew and Mission Control live as they happened. But Earth did not 
hear the private conversations between Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins, 
although they were recorded aboard the Command Module Columbia and 
Lunar Module Eagle. 

Those conversations now are available on the Internet. All the Apollo 
spacecraft had onboard voice recorders, activated during much of each 
mission to record the crew's conversations. The transcripts of those 
recordings were publicly released in the mid-1970s. Only recently 
were the actual onboard audio recordings from Apollo 11 digitized and 
made available on the Web. 

To listen to the recordings and view the transcript, visit: 



http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/apollo11_audio.html 


For more information about the history of onboard recorders on the 
Apollo spacecraft and full transcripts of all mission recordings, 
visit: 



http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission_trans/apollo11.htm 


For a detailed list of NASA events that celebrate the 40th anniversary 
of Apollo 11, visit: 



http://www.nasa.gov/apollo40th