Commentary: Neil Armstrong reporting the roll and pitch program whitch puts Apollo 11 on a proper heading. “Could they have seen something there that they didn’t want to tell the public because of the implications?”. Canadian software engineer Ben Feist is helping bring the sounds of NASA's Mission Control back to life. Aldrin: 600 feet, down at 19 [feet per second]. This was difficult since the weather was cloudy and the Moon not easily visible. As the lunar module rotates, radio reception continues to be a problem, as the static heard during this part of the recording makes clear. Despite years of training, the astronauts had never dealt with a 1202 alarm. ED Batts are 'explosive device batteries', which supply power to the devices that help operate the descent engines. [6] These SSTV signals were received by radio telescopes at Parkes Observatory in Australia, the Goldstone tracking station in California, and Honeysuckle Creek tracking station, also in Australia. Despite signal problems, Armstrong and Aldrin managed to remain in communication with both Mission Control and third Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins orbiting above them in the command module. Once the lunar module has 'rolled over', the landing radar is able to "lock on" to the Moon’s surface. Providence brought “Lunar Eavesdropping” back to light this summer. Mr Bara, who also appeared on the History Channel, said both of NASA’s astronauts were evidently upset by something they saw on the Moon within 30 minutes of landing. Going bonkers might be the biggest. “5 per cent” relates to the amount of fuel left available for the landing stage. In the lunar module, Armstrong is asking Aldrin for an LPD (Landing Point Designator). Slow it up. The agency conducted an intensive search at the time, but could not find the tapes. This firing, beginning gently, is designed to slow the Eagle down in preparation for landing. Many of these low-quality recordings remain intact. With the fuel at this level, Mission Control has initiated a timer counting down to the moment where the lunar module will either have to land immediately – or abort. Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two people on the Moon. Should they abort the landing? When Neil Armstrong took his legendary first steps on the Moon on July 20, 1969, it defined a generation. Mission Control has made the decision to continue the mission, despite the potential danger highlighted by this alarm. "There was no video that came down slow scan that was not converted live, fed live, to Houston and fed live to the world," NASA engineer Dick Nafzger, who led the search for the footage, said at a news briefing about the lost tapes in 2009. Then some poor undergraduate drew the short straw and spent five days a week over several months running through all the tapes to digitize them. Fortunately, his accomplishments were recorded by Glenn Rutherford, a young reporter for the Louisville (Kentucky) Courier-Journal. Rolling over. 20 feet. Apollo 11 about to be acquired at the Tananarive station. “They almost look like they want to vomit – that’s how disturbed they look. These visual elements were processed in 2009, as part of a NASA-approved restoration project of the first moonwalk. Aldrin: 700 feet, 21 [feet per second] down, 33 degrees. Forward. Explore space from the comfort of home. Armstrong is testing the manual controls of the lunar module. It is best to listen to the tapes while simultaneously viewing the same mission elapsed time on the transcript, since often the recordings are faint. This is Apollo Control at 2 hours, 8 minutes into the mission. It needed to be converted before it could be shown on broadcast television networks. Rutherford opened the Courier story with “Thanks to some homemade electronic equipment, including a rebuilt 20 year old radio receiver from an Army tank (see Figure 2) and an antenna made of spare pieces of aluminum, nylon cord and chicken wire (see Figure 3 and 4), a small band of Louisvillians was able to ‘eavesdrop’ Sunday (July 20) night on the American astronauts’ conversation directly from the moon.”. Follow Passant Rabie on Twitter @passantrabie. As the real-time broadcast worked and was widely recorded, preservation of the backup video was not deemed a priority in the years immediately following the mission. Remember, the Abort Guidance System (AGS) is their back-up system, and the astronauts’ only way out should something go wrong with the primary system. Two, Erroneous newspaper report garners publicity for Moon landing tapes, "Last remaining moon landing video tapes bought by NASA intern for $218 could sell for millions", "Moon tapes auction is expected to fetch big bucks. The agency restored the footage and released it in 2009 for the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon mission. Aldrin: 4 forward. Thousands of hours of supplementary conversations ("backroom loops") between flight controllers and other support teams languished in storage at the National Archives and Records Administration building in Maryland—until now. "It's executive overflow," another voice answered, indicating that Eagle’s computer was doing too many things at once, and was postponing its lower-priority tasks. [11] It then fed that field, and an appropriately time-delayed copy of the first field, to the NTSC Field Interlace Switch (encoder). Mission Control: Roger. [2], A team of retired NASA employees and contractors tried to find the tapes in the early 2000s but was unable to do so. If copies of the original SSTV format tapes were to be found, more modern digital technology could make a higher-quality conversion, yielding better images than those originally seen. "Trade you that for a piece of gum. The live auction will begin on July 20 at 11 am EDT. Aldrin: OK, I’m still on Slew so we may tend to lose as we gradually pitch over. The fact that the throttle down manoeuvre has initiated at the correct time also suggests that the 1202 programme alarm has not interrupted key guidance programmes. Aldrin: Roger. The NASA chief said: “It’s important that we get back to the Moon as soon as possible. The equipment onboard the Apollo Command Module that was used to make the recordings was called the Data Storage Equipment (DSE). From the dawn of human spaceflight through the Apollo and shuttle eras to today, the men and women who venture into space know that, when problems arise, dozens of engineers, flight controllers, doctors and other experts back at mission control in Houston are just a radio transmission away. The images show mainly the scan converted monitor and briefly the slow-scan monitor. Descent Engine Command override: off. © “This time when we go to the Moon, we’re actually going to stay. As NASA prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing next year, it has released newly unearthed backchannel conversations from the mission to the public, giving us an unprecedented peek at what was happening behind the scenes. Since the real-time broadcast conversion worked, and was widely recorded on both videotape and film, the backup video was not deemed important at the time. “Lunar Eavesdropping” was moved on to microfilm. And those records are now preserved for future generations. Coming down nicely. "Roger, we got you, we're go on that alarm," came the reassuring reply. This is the beginning of one of the most nerve-wracking parts of the Moon landing, the infamous ‘1202’ programme alarm. Apollo historian Ben Feist created the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 real-time sites, and was a NASA contractor by the time he created the . The fact NASA has not been back to the Moons since the Apollo Programme wrapped up has been another point of contention between conspiracy theorists and Moon landing sceptics alike. Greg Wiseman, a NASA engineer who worked on the project, said the ultimate goal is to identify all the voices on the tapes and pay tribute to all the people who helped orchestrate one of humanity's biggest moments. Mission Control: And Eagle, Houston, we’ve got data drop-out. Better than the simulator. They also partially released newly enhanced footage obtained during the search. How did they send everybody to the moon? Since then I have discussed “Lunar Eavesdropping” with many people, including those on a history of astronomy e-mail list, so more references to it may now exist. But Armstrong and Aldrin made it to the surface safely, as we all know, and the rest is history. Understand. Mission Control in Houston is struggling to establish communication with the lunar module. “They’re not saying that. Right now, it's hard for casual users to make sense of the files, so Feist, who previously built a website for Apollo 17 allowing visitors to relive the mission in real-time, is organizing the audio to make it more accessible. The data tapes were used to record all transmitted data (video as well as telemetry) for backup. The final, critical landing phase of the Apollo 11 mission began at 20:05 GMT on 20 July 1969. Hearing how the astronauts and Mission Control responded to these problems in real time remains one of the most extraordinary records of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. “Lunar Eavesdropping: Louisvillians hear moon walk talk on homemade equipment,” sporting Rutherford’s byline, appeared in the Wednesday, July 23, 1969 issue of that paper — front page of section B, the local news section (see Figure 1). "Give us a reading on the 1202 program alarm," Armstrong said. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin, Royal Observatory Greenwich Illuminates: Moons by Anna Gammon-Ross. Mode control: both Auto. You're in a spacecraft, descending to land on the moon for the first time in history, and the microphone to Earth is off. Aldrin is trying to work out what the 1202 programme alarm means, and tells Mission Control that it may be linked to when he requests a data display from the computer ('16/68'). And that posed a fresh challenge, since the tapes were analog and could only be played on a device called a SoundScriber that used old vacuum tube technology. 5.5 down. Ten per cent. And so it went as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the surface of the moon aboard the Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969. 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The result: 19,000 hours of newly digitized audio data, ready for Hansen's speech recognition analysis, which included identifying more than 600 different voices on the tapes. Mission Control: At seven minutes you’re still looking great to us Eagle. ACA out of detent. Collins was impressed with Baysinger’s work. "[21] NASA also had ongoing research reasons for finding these higher-resolution tapes, as the Constellation program shared some similar tasks with the original Apollo program. Just under 13 minutes later, at 20:17 GMT, the Eagle lunar module landed on the Moon. What do you say? Mission Control: Roger. Follow the radio communications between the astronauts and Mission Control during the lunar module's descent. [1][2] It was confirmed that these tapes were shipped to Johns Hopkins University, but they could not be found by the search team. The 1202 programme alarm was a warning from the Apollo Guidance Computer that its core processing system had been overloaded. To get the best experience possible, please download a compatible browser. 1202, we copy it. NASA has uploaded all of the audio to the Internet Archive, a nonprofit website that hosts cultural artifacts in digital form. Mission Control: Roger. “Landing on the Moon wasn't just Neil Armstrong. [1][15] The quality would be similar to that viewed by a few technicians and others at SSTV-receiving ground stations before the video was converted to NTSC. [8], When the Apollo TV camera radioed its images, the ground stations received its raw unconverted SSTV signal and split it into two branches. So-called Moon landing experts who have studied the Apollo 11 mission have boldly accused NASA of holding back vital information on what really happened on July 20, 1069. Mission Control react quickly to reassure them. Alan Butler, author of Who Built the Moon?, said on Ancient Aliens: “One of the most interesting questions with regard to our interaction with the Moon, is why we have never gone back there since the end of the Apollo missions. The Apollo 11 spacecraft took three days to reach the lunar orb. This can resolve "No Devices Found" and other issues. Mission Control: Eagle, Houston. [11] An analog disk recorder, based on the Ampex HS-100 model, was used to record the first field from the camera. Without reliable data and radio communications from the lunar module, the landing may have to be aborted. [20] On August 16, 2006 NASA announced its official search, saying, "The original tapes may be at the Goddard Space Flight Center ... or at another location within the NASA archiving system" and "NASA engineers are hopeful that when the tapes are found they can use today's digital technology to provide a version of the moonwalk that is much better quality than what we have today. Aldrin is reporting warning lights in the lunar module. The space agency aims to send remote rovers to Mars by 2024, followed by manned crews in 2028. You’re looking great at eight minutes. Mission Control is acknowledging yet another computer alarm code. NASA astronauts are trained to handle just about any problem that arises during a mission — but that doesn’t mean they’re on their own. And NASA has uploaded the full audio to the publicly accessible archive.org, an invaluable resource for historians, filmmakers, and any others keen to savor the full Apollo 11 experience. “We’re not going to leave flags and footprints and then come home and not go back for another 50 years.”. Aldrin: 100 feet. Armstrong: Houston, you looking at our Delta-H? Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook. 4QST readers interested in this story may want to look at Grahn’s Tracking Apollo 17 from Florida or Flagg’s University of Florida Student Satellite Tracking Station Web pages. "I think that Apollo 11 is one of the biggest engineering accomplishments in human history," Greg Wiseman, an audio engineer at NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston involved in the project,. An unanswered question in this story is whether there were other lunar eavesdropping projects conducted by Amateur Radio operators. Aldrin: 160 feet. Although the researchers never found the telemetry tapes, they did discover the best visual quality NTSC videotapes as well as Super 8 movie film taken of a video monitor in Australia, showing the SSTV transmission before it was converted. Take this dramatic exchange between the astronauts aboard Eagle, the Apollo 11 lunar lander, and mission control that unfolded as the craft descended toward the moon’s rocky surface on July 20, 1969: "Program alarm," Neil Armstrong radioed back to mission control as he eyed the readout on his computer console. Armstrong: Roger. Aldrin: You’re pegged on horizontal velocity. In one such instance, the news roundup ends with a story about an oatmeal-eating contest. The splashdown point was 13 deg 19 min N, 169 deg 9 min W, 400 miles SSW of Wake Island and 24 km (15 mi) from the recovery ship USS Hornet. But that was just a fraction of the recorded communications for the mission. “And what else is very telling is that although the USSR at the time was getting to be quite able to send its own astronauts to the Moon, it never seems to have done so. So how did Larry Baysinger come to be eavesdropping on Apollo 11 the night of July 20, 1969? The nearly forgotten story of how a radio amateur successfully detected transmissions from the first men to land on the Moon. Aldrin: 11 forward. Mission Control is instructing that the engine be throttled down six minutes and 35 seconds into the burn. After Apollo 11 he moved on to other projects. A single tape may include recordings from several different periods of the mission. One such researcher is book author David Childress, who said communiques of “parked UFOs” on the Moon were intercepted during this gap and withheld from the public. These numbers should ideally be closely aligned. The search for the "lost tapes" began in 2006, when reports began surfacing that NASA had erased some original footage from the first moon landing.
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