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1. APOLLO 11 CONVERSATIONS EARTH DIDN'T HEAR NOW ONLINE AT NASA GOV
2. STS-127 MCC Status Report #01

Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:24:50 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: APOLLO 11 CONVERSATIONS EARTH DIDN'T HEAR NOW ONLINE AT NASA GOV

July 15, 2009

John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602

James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Report #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

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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:12:19 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-127 MCC Status Report #01

STS-127 Report #01 Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 6 p m CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 on the journey to put humans on the moon, space shuttle Endeavour blasted off at 5:03 p m CDT today from the Kennedy Space Center Endeavour is on a 16-day mission to the International Space Station packed with spacewalks, robotics work and science experiments to complete the assembly of the Japanese segment of the orbital outpost

Commander Mark Polansky, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists Chris Cassidy, Tom Marshburn, Dave Wolf, Tim Kopra and Julie Payette of the Canadian Space Agency reached orbit less than nine minutes after launch At the time of Endeavour’s liftoff, the International Space Station was orbiting 225 statute miles over the south central Pacific Ocean Aboard the complex was Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineers Michael Barratt, Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Roman Romanenko, Robert Thirsk of the Canadian Space Agency and Frank De Winne of the European Space Agency, equaling the most humans in orbit at the same time – 13

Kopra will become a station crew member a few hours after docking on Friday, replacing Wakata, who will wrap up his four-month stay in space by returning to Earth aboard Endeavour

In addition to the crew, Endeavour is carrying a “porch” for the space station, on which the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency will be exposing science experiments to the extreme environment of space Along side of the porch inside the shuttle’s cargo bay are the experiments to outfit the porch, as well as several spare parts for the space station The crew will conduct five spacewalks and operate three different robotic arms as the assembly of the porch and its experiments unfolds

Shortly after reaching orbit, Endeavour’s crew prepared to open the shuttle’s cargo bay doors and will unstow equipment prior to testing the ship’s robotic arm for work tomorrow to grapple the Orbiter Boom Sensor System crane for the initial inspection of Endeavour’s heat shield

Endeavour’s crew heads to sleep just after 11 p m CDT with wakeup set for 7:03 CDT Thursday morning The next shuttle status report will be issued after crew wakeup, or earlier if events warrant

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