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General Discussion / Re: Frank Borman

« on: November 09, 2023, 08:20:57 pm »

A sad day indeed. We need to get Apollo 8 done in real time.

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General Discussion / Re: Ken Mattingly

« on: November 05, 2023, 11:54:00 am »

Fred Haise laughing about Ken trying to come up with procedures to allow the crew to shoot pictures of the Service Module when they separate.
https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/?t=095:23:33

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General Discussion / Re: Ken Mattingly

« on: November 05, 2023, 11:44:16 am »

Of course there's this now famous phone call between Marilyn Lovell and Ken where she's trying to get an understanding of the situation after the onboard explosion.
https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/?t=065:53:41&ch=14

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General Discussion / Re: Ken Mattingly

« on: November 05, 2023, 11:30:58 am »

"Dr. Payne said that if he didn't come down with measles, somebody would have a hold on Chuck Berry's arm so Ken Mattingly could punch him in the nose"
https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/?t=029:30:57&ch=32

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General Discussion / Re: Ken Mattingly

« on: November 05, 2023, 11:27:09 am »

Here they're trying to set Ken up to be able act as CAPCOM even if he can't be in the MOCR due to infection:
https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/?t=027:41:49&ch=25

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General Discussion / Re: Ken Mattingly

« on: November 05, 2023, 11:10:45 am »

Here's one. Ken giving a press conference shortly after launch:
https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/?t=004:47:10&ch=58

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Apollo 13 Moments of Interest / Re: 057:53:58 Kamman and Hutchinson need quick and dirty answer on IMU heaters

« on: September 11, 2023, 10:13:50 am »

Today Mission Control uses a similar structure where the engineers who designed a piece of equipment are available during EVA. They sit in a room called the Mission Evaluation Room (MER) and when the crew runs into a problem such as a bolt that won't turn, the person who can answer the exact torque tolerances of that bolt is available on the loop. I don't know what the history of this structure in mission control is, but it's very likely that it's due to the occurrences that happened during apollo 13.

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General Discussion / Re: Other Apollo Missions

« on: August 30, 2023, 11:08:57 pm »

Not for several years. Hold-up at the National Archives.

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Apollo 13 Moments of Interest / Re: "Y'all looking for me", and an allusion to looking for John Aaron

« on: August 05, 2023, 03:15:28 pm »

If you listen to 13 Minutes to the Moon podcast season 2, they explain John Aaron’s role. He’s also interviewed.

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Apollo 13 Moments of Interest / Re: 124:23:10 Jim Shepherd discusses the accident and the response

« on: August 01, 2023, 05:57:13 pm »

This is very interesting, indeed. Thanks for finding it!

Ben

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Apollo 11 Moments of Interest / Re: CONTROL and the bet on Eagle's lifespan

« on: July 24, 2023, 08:04:08 am »

What interesting research! I wonder if any papers were published at the time about this result. Thank you very much for contributing this to the forum.

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General Discussion / Re: Apollo 12 launch EECOM loop?

« on: July 10, 2023, 10:01:07 am »

Unfortunately, those tapes are yet to be digitized. It will happen at some point but probably not for years.

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General Discussion / Re: Some help with OCR radio transcripts?

« on: June 24, 2023, 12:49:32 pm »

Thanks very much for your kind words, I'm glad you're enjoying Apollo in Real Time!

It sounds like you're starting from scratch if you're contemplating using the scans of the typewritten transcripts. Digitizing these into something useable has been a big part of our project, and the OCR problem was a big one https://benfeist.com/digitizing-apollo-17-new-ocr-techniques/

I recommend you pull our copies of Apollo 11, 13, and 17 directly. You can download them here:
https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/indexes/utteranceData.csv
https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/indexes/utteranceData.csv
https://apolloinrealtime.org/17/indexes/utteranceData.csv

For other missions, there has been an effort to crowdsource digitizing those transcripts through a project called "spacelog" that was born out of a hackathon actually. You can read about it here https://www.hannahdonovan.com/spacelog
There are quite a few mission transcripts in the "mission" folder of their github: https://github.com/Spacelog/Spacelog in their own text format.

I hope you find this helpful!

Ben

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Apollo 13 Moments of Interest / Re: 131:04:41 Retro - They can't all come in the MOCR

« on: April 19, 2023, 12:16:17 pm »

I think "booster dummies" might refer to the people who have been using the booster console as a phone booth. Apparently, post launch with booster being vacant and also down in the far corner of the MOCR, booster console was the place to go to make phone calls via the console, and of course these have all been recorded and are available here.

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Apollo 13 Moments of Interest / 131:04:41 Retro - They can't all come in the MOCR

« on: April 16, 2023, 09:55:25 pm »

https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/?t=131:04:41&ch=19

Retro talks to all the backroom leads about how everyone who worked on saving the crew can't all come and watch entry in the MOCR.