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Apollo General Discussion / Re: Apollo 16 IRT

« on: September 08, 2026, 02:31:09 pm »

At this point it could be any mission. We still haven't received the digitized mission control audio from Dr. Hansen at the University of Texas at Dallas. When we get it, we will start (can't wait).

Ben

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Apollo General Discussion / Re: Commentary Field

« on: September 08, 2026, 06:51:58 am »

Unfortunately it’s text only. Interviews were done with the crews many years after each mission and the commentary is the transcripts of those interviews. It would be wonderful to find that source material but I don’t know where it might be.

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Apollo 11 Moments of Interest / Re: 112:56:27 Aldrin Discovers a Broken Circuit Breaker

« on: July 21, 2026, 09:35:50 am »

Found a whole discussion about the new procedure required because of the broken circuit breaker.
https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/?t=120:01:11&ch=50

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Apollo 11 Moments of Interest / Re: 112:56:27 Aldrin Discovers a Broken Circuit Breaker

« on: July 20, 2026, 08:13:33 pm »

Awesome. Thanks for tracking this down!

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Apollo General Discussion / Re: One of the Apollo 17 videos got taken down

« on: May 22, 2026, 05:47:30 pm »

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Good news! After reviewing your dispute, VA Media (Valleyarm) Affiliates has decided to release their copyright claim on your YouTube video.

Video title: Apollo 17 - 114:40 - 122:40
 
Thanks,
The YouTube team

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Apollo General Discussion / Re: One of the Apollo 17 videos got taken down

« on: May 15, 2026, 06:11:31 pm »

Thanks for the heads up. I've already disputed the copyright claim. This happens quite often: a documentary or something gets put on youtube and it marks the whole thing as owned by whoever made it, and if they used archival footage in it the system claims that they own it. It's ridiculous.

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Apollo General Discussion / Re: Other Apollo Missions

« on: December 16, 2025, 08:23:23 pm »

To use NASA speak: no earlier than 2028.

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ISS General Discussion / ISS in Real Time - Updates

« on: November 27, 2025, 08:43:45 pm »

2025-11-27 - Happy US Thanksgiving. The website has just been updated with comm up to Nov 24, 2025, and photos / articles up to today.

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ISS General Discussion / Re: International (non-US) Contributions to the ISS

« on: November 17, 2025, 12:37:50 am »

Thanks for your post! I'm very happy to hear that you're enjoying the website. Please feel free to post links to anything interesting you find.

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ISS General Discussion / Re: Science Moments

« on: October 28, 2025, 04:25:22 pm »

Awesome finds! If you work at NASA, message me internally and I can show you the video feeds that haven't been exported yet.

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ISS General Discussion / Re: ISS in Real Time is coming soon!

« on: October 27, 2025, 10:05:30 am »

We're live at https://issinrealtime.org

An article was just released about it too:
https://www.collectspace.com/news/news-102725a-iss-in-real-time-25-years-continuous-human-occupancy-space-station.html

And I wrote up a blog post about making it:
https://benfeist.com/posts/iss-in-real-time/

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ISS General Discussion / ISS in Real Time is coming soon!

« on: October 12, 2025, 12:09:41 pm »

ISS in Real Time, a new website, will be going online soon! Stay tuned.

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Apollo 17 Moments of Interest / Re: More time corrections?

« on: September 02, 2025, 06:42:37 pm »

Excellent work! If you'd like to contribute new timings for any of the photography on Apollo in Real Time, I can give you the excel spreadsheet that we process into the website timings. You can edit the timestamps there and I can get the changes onto the website.

Ben

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Apollo General Discussion / Re: Other Apollo Missions

« on: May 15, 2025, 04:38:40 pm »

Apollo 16 is being digitized! This means that our project team could get access to the data this summer and begin creation of an Apollo 16 in Real Time.

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Apollo 11 Moments of Interest / Improved Apollo 11 MOCR audio transcripts

« on: October 25, 2024, 04:31:08 pm »

I've taken the 11,000 hours of Apollo 11 MOCR audio recordings and have re-transcribed them using the latest Whisper "large-v3" model and a wrapper system called WhisperX. This has provided fewer hallucinations in the transcripts and provides much better utterance timestamps.

These new transcripts replace the existing "large-v2" transcripts and are now live on apolloinrealtime.org/11

New stats:
4,803,618 utterances
42,684,618 words
224MB of text