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Ot: Apollo 11 In Real-time

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Apologies if this is OT but I thought while we wait for the next SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch, some people might find this interesting. As I write this, it is of course just 1 month to go before the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11's landing on the moon, July 20, 1969.

Space history fans, check out the recently released site: Apollo 11 in Real-time

(beware clicking the link if you have anything at all important to do in the next few days, or next week/month ;))

Software developer/NASA historian Ben Feist put together thousands of hours of audio - apparently much of it never heard publicly before - cleaned/sync'ed it up including sync'ing photos and film/TV broadcasts clips to where they occurred in the timeline. You can listen to the mission in real-time, following audio from the astronauts, capcom, plus any of the channels of the each individual control stations in Mission Control, read transcripts plus commentary from later interviews alongside the realtime audio. Best experienced on a desktop computer for easier navigation and to get all the video/photos, but there is also a mobile version. Quite an incredible compilation IMO

Ben also previously did the same sort of thing for Apollo 17, at Apollo 17 in Real-time, and he also worked on the audio restoration used in the recent Apollo 11 movie.

also: you can hear a little bit about how he did all this audio work in an interview with him in the last ~18min of Episode 96: Restoring the Apollo Mission Control Center of Nasa's Houston We Have A Podcast