NASA makes public sound recordings of Apollo moon landing

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has given the general public access to all sound recordings made during of the landing of Apollo 11 49 years ago

. On July 20, 1969, humanity first set foot on the moon, and the men who represented our species descended into history books as heroes. During this fateful day, space astronauts remained in constant contact with Mission Control in Houston. In turn, the Houston people and other support teams did their best to help Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins stay on track for the mission.

The audio recordings of these conversations were finally made available to the public. public on July 24 through NASA's online archives in digital audio form. The soundbite collection represents 19,000 hours of video. This includes conversations between the time the astronauts took off on July 16, 1969 and the time they swept into the Pacific Ocean on July 24.

The conversion of tape recordings to digital format has proven daunting. The recorder was left functional to play the remaining 170 bands used for the mission. The tape recorder even had to be modified to speed up the process somewhat.

The archive is completely open to those who have time to spend the thousands of hours of conversations that lead to one of humanity's achievements. Sound files can also be downloaded and listened to as an audiobook while going through the daily commute. Simply prepare a very spacious memory card. / ra

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