See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. My searching through Google and various databases, asking among those knowledgeable in the history of astronomy and querying various print and Web Amateur Radio publications has turned up only one other case of independent detection of Apollo transmission from the Moon. But the true value, from a human perspective, is how the project captured and preserved the perspective of all the unsung heroes of the Apollo missionsnot just the astronauts who were front and center in the public eye. The US space agency has boldly announced in February this year it will renew its focus on permanently returning to the Moon. Listen to restored Apollo 11 mission audio - YouTube / 4:55 Listen to restored Apollo 11 mission audio CBC News 3.23M subscribers 116K views 3 years ago Canadian software engineer Ben Feist. On July 21, the SPS thrusters fired, returning the Command and Service Module to Earth, with the lone mid-course correction coming on July 22. It was noisy, but you could hear what was going on. This is Apollo Control at 36 hours, 11 minutes. JSC Transcript Collection All mission transcripts, onboard audio as well as other mission audio, from NASA's historic early missions, including all Apollo flights, are available. In mission control, astronauts Charles Duke Jr., James Lovell Jr. and Fred Haise Jr. keep in contact with the Apollo 11 astronauts during their lunar landing mission on July 20, 1969. The famed astrologer has been credited with predicting numerous major events from throughout history, but what predictions did he make for 2023? [18], News that these analog data tapes were missing emerged on August 5, 2006, when the print and online versions of The Sydney Morning Herald published a story with the title One giant blunder for mankind: how NASA lost moon pictures. "It's executive overflow," another voice answered, indicating that Eagles computer was doing too many things at once, and was postponing its lower-priority tasks. "Trade you that for a piece of gum. Toll-free: 1-888-277-5289 After a 380,000 km journey, thecrew set foot on the Moon, walked upon it, installed scientific instruments, took samples, and thendeparted for Earth. Today a person can sneeze and let the whole world know about it through Twitter or Facebook, so it is hard to believe that the lunar eavesdropping project could have almost completely disappeared into the microfilm drawers but so it had. Shortly after the. Wiseman set out to find the missing audio records after being contacted by John Hansen of the University of Texas at Dallas for a speech technology research project Hansen was developing. In ancient days, men looked at the stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. Fortunately, his accomplishments were recorded by Glenn Rutherford, a young reporter for the Louisville (Kentucky) Courier-Journal. This time when we go to the Moon, were actually going to stay. Others will follow, and surely find their way home. Alien shock claim: UFO hunter says he has spotted 'god-like' beings, Apollo 15 astronaut's Moon landing confession: 'Can't do anything now', Alien UFO found in Antarctica is 100 percent proof of ET - claim, UFO sighting: Mysterious 'man-made' crafts in Siberia stun scientists. I was immediately intrigued, especially when Rutherford said he did a story on it that appeared in the Courier-Journal.2 He could not recall the exact date, so a few days later I was rummaging through the microfilm collection at the University of Louisville library. It is possible that there had been other projects like Larry Baysingers and perhaps these projects were told in articles like Glenn Rutherfords. All photos used with permission of The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, except as noted. The velocity is 4,216 feet per second [1,285 m/s]. The nearly forgotten story of how a radio amateur successfully detected transmissions from the first men to land on the Moon. 2I was intrigued due to my interest in astronomys history (this being an interesting story of radio astronomy). The Service Module was jettisoned from the Command Module early, and the damage is clearly visible on the right side. [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. 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. But that didnt happen at all. The Apollo 11 missing tapes were those that were recorded from Apollo 11's slow-scan television telecast in its raw format on telemetry data tape at the time of the first Moon landing in 1969 and subsequently lost. 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. Its beam or field of view was such that, once pointed at the Moon, it could be let go for a little while, but pretty soon it would have to be reaimed because the motions of the Earth and Moon caused the Moon to drift out of the antennas field and the signal to be lost. Those 13 minutes to the Moon had been meticulously planned in the years building up to the first lunar landing mission, but this was still an unprecedented challenge for the Apollo Program. In fact, this was one piece of evidence that the Apollo 11 signals the receiver picked up were indeed from the Moon if the antenna was not kept aimed at the Moon, the signal disappeared. But now that NASA and the University of Texas, Dallas have digitized 19,000 hours of recordings from the historic Apollo 11 mission, we can listen in on some of the most remarkable examples of the teamwork between astronauts and their ground-based colleagues. [14], This low-quality optical conversion of the Apollo 11 moonwalk video imagesmade with a TV camera taking pictures of a video monitoris what was widely recorded in real-time onto kinescope film and NTSC broadcast-quality two-inch quadruplex videotape. All Rights Reserved. If Armstrong and Aldrin the first two moonwalkers were to perish before returning to Earth, the United States already had a presidential address drafted for such a purpose. I see the trail behind them what a spectacle! "Once the audio gets out there, maybe people will say, 'Hey, that was my Dad, or that was my Granddad,'" he said. We'll play that for you now. At the time, the NTSC broadcast was recorded on many videotapes and kinescope films. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. They were always working collaboratively.". A photo taken during the Apollo 11 50th anniversary show of the Apollo 11 rocket projected on the Washington Monument in Washington, DC on July 20, 2019. 3These searches were done in August 2009. But only recently were the actual onboard recordings from Apollo 11 digitized so that the recordings could be made available on the Internet. The revelation was made by a secret medical channel of communication between Apollo 11 and NASAs mission control on Earth. The moonwalk's converted video signal was broadcast live around the world on July 21, 1969 (2:56 UTC). When Neil Armstrong took his legendary first steps on the Moon on July 20, 1969, it defined a generation. Passant Rabie is an award-winning journalist from Cairo, Egypt. Does 'stagehand reflected in astronaut's' visor prove it was filmed in a studio? Three tapes containing original footage from the moon landing are up for auction. The transcripts of those recordings were publicly released in the mid-1970s and they have been posted on the Internet for years. The plan to avoid it was simple: the Service Module, post-separation, would perform a series of thrust maneuvers to take it safely away from the re-entry path of the Command Module. This historic exchange on July 20, 1969 marked the end of a perilous journey to the lunar surface, but a multitude of threats still faced the pair of NASA astronauts during their surface. To broadcast the SSTV transmission on standard television, NASA ground receiving stations performed real-time scan conversion to the NTSC television format. The images show mainly the scan converted monitor and briefly the slow-scan monitor. It all sounds so simple and straightforward, which obscures the real truth: for every one of these steps, there were hundreds (or more) potential points of failure that everyone involved needed to guard against. Notice that the top one is almost unchanged while the bottom one is shattering into pieces. Baysingers wife and daughter watched the Apollo 11 landing on TV while Baysinger and Rutherford listened via Baysingers equipment. This is something that QST readers with long memories can help with. [11] The disk recorder repeated this sequence five more times, until the camera imaged the next SSTV frame. Lunar Eavesdropping quietly sat in the rolls of microfilmed Courier-Journal editions in the reference sections of (mostly Kentucky) libraries, awaiting rediscovery. [12] The video seen on home television sets was further degraded by the very long and noisy analog transmission path. They look very sullen, very depressed, theyre looking down. When I got back to Rutherford about how I was interested in the story and had found it in the July 23, 1969 Courier-Journal, he mentioned that Baysinger actually still lived in Louisville retired from a radio career but still active in ham radio. The Apollo 11 Onboard Audio Tape Database cross references the tape numbers to the Mission Elapsed Time (MET) that was on each tape. More info. In The Los Angeles Times, Justin Chang called it "a stirring companion piece to Damien Chazelle's recent 'First . Image degradation was unavoidable with this system as the monitor and camera's optical limitations significantly lowered the original SSTV signal's contrast, brightness and resolution. Numerous personnel in other rooms, all connected via headsets, supported the mission and the most critical conversations were recorded. (NASA / AFP / Getty Images), Astronaut Edwin E. Buzz Aldrin Jr., Lunar Module, Pilot, stands near a scientific experiment on the lunar surface. The Lunar Module takes off from the Moon and docks with the Command and Service Module. Recordings of this conversion were not lost and have long been available to the public (along with much higher-quality video from later Apollo missions). And on July 24, re-entry procedures were initiated, returning the Apollo 11 crew to a safe splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. The footage was recorded in slow scan, meaning that it had an output of 10 frames per second; therefore, it could not be directly broadcast on television. You can see the bits flying off. Engineer Gary Johnson hand-drew schematics for rewiring the Apollo Service Modules jettison controller, and the changes were made just after the next flight: Apollo 12. Canadian software engineer Ben Feist is helping bring the sounds of NASA's Mission Control back to life. Extensive searches through Google, as well as through the EBSCO and JSTOR databases, turned up no references to it at all.3. (The tapes also included audio from Apollos 1 and 13 and Gemini 8, but those are not yet cleared for public release.) [3] Australian backup tapes were also erased after Goddard received the reels,[1] following the procedures established by NASA. What do you say? 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. Uncovered by Nancy Atkinson in her new book, Eight Years to the Moon, this anomaly could have led to a disastrous ending for astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins. . If the one-inch (25mm) data tapes, containing the raw unprocessed Apollo 11 SSTV signals, were to be found, modern digital technology would allow for significantly better conversion and processing. This live conversion was crude, essentially using a video camera pointing at a high-quality 10-inch (25cm) TV monitor. [3] Mike Inchalik, president of Lowry Digital, mentioned that his company would only restore the video and would not remove defects (such as reflections that looked like flag poles). Baba Vanga is credited with predicting many notable world events, but what does she think is in store for 2023? When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon on 20 July 1969, Nasa used two film cameramen at mission control in Houston to capture the moment back on Earth. (Modern-day Cape Canaveral.). 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. The main air-to-ground recordings and on-board recordings from the historic mission have been publicly available online for decades. FOLLOW NBC NEWS MACH ON TWITTER, FACEBOOK, AND INSTAGRAM. Those projects and their stories might be sitting in a drawer somewhere, waiting for a QST reader to bring them to light. The re-entry of the Service Module should have only come much later, after performing another orbit (or set of orbits) around Earth. The Apollo 11 Onboard Audio Tape Database cross references the tape numbers to the Mission Elapsed Time (MET) that was on each tape. Shortly after the Apollo 11 Lunar Module eagle touched down on the Moon with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, radio communications were cut short. [29][30] Although Sotheby's described these tapes as "the best surviving NASA videotape recordings of the historic Apollo 11 Moon Landing" and "the earliest, sharpest and most accurate surviving video images of man's first steps on the moon",[31] a statement from NASA said these tapes "contain no material that hasn't been preserved at NASA". Could he get unedited, unfiltered information about the Apollo 11 landing by eavesdropping on the radio signals transmitted from the lunar surface? So Hansen's team ordered a custom-built read head that allowed all 30 tracks to be played back at the same time. Even from our perspective in 2019, 50 years later, humanitys achievements from July, 1969, still mark the pinnacle of crewed spaceflight. Apollo 11 Onboard Voice Transcription (5.5 Mb PDF). The Holy Lance: 8 facts about the spear that killed Jesus, The Reluctant King: The life of King George VI, The true story of Anne Frank and her diary, 10 free episodes you can watch on History PLAY in January 2023. New York, The astronauts needed an answer. The prophecies of Nostradamus: What did he predict for 2023? Inside, youll find many additional details about this event, including interview snippets with Gary Johnson himself. I was also intrigued because both in my classes and in our observatory public outreach programs I encounter people who ask whether I think we really went to the Moon. By shifting the Service Module to a significantly different trajectory, it wouldnt even re-enter at the same time as the Command Module, but would skip off the atmosphere this time. Four days later, humanity would take our first footsteps on another world. 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. [3] Their findings included a videotape recorded in Sydney after the conversion but before the satellite transmission around the world, videotape from CBS News archives (direct from NASA, without commentary) and kinescopes at Johnson Space Center. Baysinger says that on the night of the Apollo 11 landing, he and Rutherford had to essentially aim the antenna at the Moon by getting behind it and sighting it like a gun. It made recordings onboard the Lunar Module, but the DSEA flown on the Eagle during Apollo 11 malfunctioned. At the present time, Apollo 11 is about 134,000 nautical miles [about 248,000 km] from Earth. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. [19] The missing tapes were among over 700 boxes of magnetic data tapes recorded throughout the Apollo program that have not been found. George had learned about these "government surplus" auctions while an intern at the Johnson Space Center. I thought it would be wonderful in those instances to have on tap a story of a local person independently verifying the presence of astronauts on the Moon. It was an entire team of people working together to make it happen, and all of this audio is their side of the story.. [3] The multinational research team looking into the missing tapesmostly retired engineers who had worked on the original broadcast in 1969was represented at the event by Richard Nafzger from the Goddard Space Flight Center and Stanley Lebar, the former lead engineer at Westinghouse who developed the Apollo Lunar Camera and the Apollo Color Camera. NASA names nine astronauts for Boeing, SpaceX flights in 'new era' for spaceflight. "[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. 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Newington, CT, 06111-1400 USA Baysinger told me that he got interested in radio in the early 1950s, when building a radio from scratch or modifying a military surplus device was common practice. 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. 8 people executed for high treason in the UK. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of theTerms and Conditions. During the technical debriefing in the aftermath of Apollo 11, the fly-by of the Service Module past the Command Module was noted by Buzz Aldrin, who also reported on the Service Modules rotation, which was far in excess of the design parameters. The Apollo 11 spacecraft took three days to reach the lunar orb. Had those two modules collided, the astronauts on board would have had a failed re-entry, killing all three passengers. [11] It then fed that field, and an appropriately time-delayed copy of the first field, to the NTSC Field Interlace Switch (encoder). 'Unwanted fire' may have caused ABL Space Systems' launch failure, Pictures from space! The National Association for Amateur Radio Space is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. An ablative heat shield on the outside of the Command Module protected the capsule from the heat of re-entry (from space into Earths atmosphere), which is sufficient to melt most metals. "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. An unanswered question in this story is whether there were other lunar eavesdropping projects conducted by Amateur Radio operators. 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. But of the innumerable things that could go wrong, one of them was entirely unexpected: the possibility that the Service Module, scheduled to break apart and safely burn up in Earths atmosphere, could accidentally have a piece of its debris collide with the Command Module, ruining re-entry and killing the returning astronauts on board. Hansen's research is focused on developing better speech recognition technology to analyze taped discussions of groups trying to solve problems. He independently detected radio transmissions from the Apollo 11 astronauts on the lunar surface. [10] The conversion process started when the signal was sent to a high-quality 10-inch (25cm) video monitor, where a conventional RCA TK-22 television camerausing the NTSC broadcast standard of 525 scanned lines interlaced at 30 fpsmerely re-photographed its screen. 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