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Ignitions sequence have started

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Hi my name is Ben
Feist. I want you to experience the

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Apollo missions exactly as they occurred
fifty years ago

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Ok Houston we have a problem here.

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The original audio for the mission is one of the most
interesting components.

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The audio itself has been in the National Archives on 30
track tapes for the last 50 years and

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there is only one machine that can play
these tapes back uses in a very special

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format and we had to refurbish that
machine and get it working again and

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have the tapes shipped back in the
National Archives to Johnson Space

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Center and we carefully digitized them
so that we could hear them for the first

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time the amount of material on the
website in total is 7400 hours of audio

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but what that means is you can sit in
any position in Mission Control for the

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whole mission and just be that play
controller

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So these tapes were put away with the investigative material
archives and we're not stored with the rest

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so they haven't been hurt since
1970

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There's one particular phone call will
be found where Marilyn Lovell, Jim Lovell's wife

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phones Mission Control and wants
to talk to somebody about what is going

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on this is the morning after the
explosion happens

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Hello? Hello, Marilyn. This is Ken.

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Hi. Listen I'm naturally concerned.

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And I thought  you were the best person to talk to.

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How are thing looking this morning?

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My kids aren't up yet. They don't even know what's going on.

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Cause they went to sleep before all this came up last night.

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I was wondering what I can tell them.

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Here you can actually hear the reality of what this was who were these
people and how worried were they or you

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know were they strong in the situation
where they afraid in the situation all

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those kinds of things are actual real
questions that can now be answered through this material

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Listening to the people in
Mission Control doing their work is an

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astounding thing to witness we've heard
for years historians tell the story

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about heroic their efforts were in
Mission Control but before you hear it

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firsthand and you can hear the emotions
and people's voices in them and the

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speed at which they had to make choices
you can't really appreciate it they

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didn't hesitate they did what they
needed to do now through all this

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material you can get to know the
dry sense of humor

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get to know the way that they would banter back
and forth trying to keep things like

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they were under great pressure and you
come back come away from it feeling a

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lot more enriched by the historical
material

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I would love to do it for all

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the Apollo missions it's a huge amount
of work and of course takes a lot of

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time currently you can go look at Apollo
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Really getting this material into a

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situation where people can listen to it
and have access to it is the there's

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been look important part of this project
I'm sure in another 50 years there might

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be another effort to translate them into
some other format that will be however

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we consume our media then which I can't
anticipate

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but for now this is the best way to do it

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and I'm happy we're
able to bring this material into your

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living room

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This is pretty. Look ah there

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