# 'Live' coverage of Apollo 11 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 13, 2009, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-coverage-of-apollo-11/502855 "2009-07-13T15:03:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-coverage-of-apollo-11/502855/81 "2009-07-20T21:22:10Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > …How can the transcription be so full of errors? See the second photo down [here](http://www.ehartwell.com/Apollo17/MissionTranscriptCollection.htm). NASA apparently used non-technical adminstrative personnel (i.e. secretaries) to transcribe the tapes. I’ve noticed a great many errors that only a non-technical person would make. The “Apollo 11 Technical Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription” appears to be more accurate than the “Apollo 11 PAO Mission Commentary Transcript.” Unfortunately, only the latter contains both sides of the communications. See here for all of the transcripts: > **[Johnson Space Center - NASA](https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/)** ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-coverage-of-apollo-11/502855/82 "2009-07-20T21:34:41Z")
Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-coverage-of-apollo-11/502855/83 "2009-07-20T22:22:25Z")
I caught the last ~15 minutes until touchdown - right about re-aquisition of signal for the CM. Then listened for a while. Was cool to get “live” audio - including static. Brian Collins: … What time is lunch? Houston Repeat please Collins: Disreaguard ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-coverage-of-apollo-11/502855/84 "2009-07-21T01:54:04Z")
Just an hour before they leave the lander for the surface - You can also [re-?]watch it on ‘television’ with Walter Cronkite reporting, thanks to [http://kottke.org/apollo-11/](http://kottke.org/apollo-11/). ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-coverage-of-apollo-11/502855/85 "2009-07-21T02:30:33Z")
And here’s [a commercial](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEDhf5Zjv6A) that frequently aired during space missions. Not the actual commercial, which is probably lost to history, but it is the actual song, and the video put together for it is pretty true to the spirit. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-coverage-of-apollo-11/502855/86 "2009-07-21T03:07:30Z")
Lost the audio. I’ve reloaded the pop-up a few times, and the webpage too. No joy. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-coverage-of-apollo-11/502855/87 "2009-07-21T03:15:58Z")
Damn. Now I’m getting the over capacity message. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-coverage-of-apollo-11/502855/88 "2009-07-21T03:16:31Z")
Just logged on to [NASA.gov](http://www.nasa.gov) to listen to the ‘live’ radiocast of Apollo 11. I connected to the streaming audio just minutes before the famous “first words on the moon”. Just think, on the 40th anniverary of Apollo 11 - July 20th, 2009 - we get to listen to the moon landing, all of us, just like mission control. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-coverage-of-apollo-11/502855/89 "2009-07-21T03:23:55Z")
OK, I can hear it from the NASA site. Grazie! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-coverage-of-apollo-11/502855/90 "2009-07-21T04:31:37Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > I think that was it for the simulation, you should click on the videos for the moon walk, if you click on the “back to earth” button you will get to see a nice epilogue and you can print a nice certificate for “making” the journey. What is supposed to happen after you type a name and \? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-coverage-of-apollo-11/502855/91 "2009-07-21T05:17:26Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > What is supposed to happen after you type a name and \? Nothing, you need to print the document after typing your name, preferably to a color printer, you can also save the file and print it later. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-coverage-of-apollo-11/502855/92 "2009-07-21T05:27:30Z")
I thought there might be some text or something on it, other than just the name and the pictures. It seemed so on the thumbnail. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-coverage-of-apollo-11/502855/93 "2009-07-21T05:35:57Z")
Just spent about an hour and a half running through the animations necessary to get to the thing, using a VPN connection to my office PC. That one had text. I guess the .pdf on the site doesn’t work with Macs. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-coverage-of-apollo-11/502855/94 "2009-07-21T18:09:56Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Just spent about an hour and a half running through the animations necessary to get to the thing, using a VPN connection to my office PC. That one had text. I guess the .pdf on the site doesn’t work with Macs. It worked with my Mac. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/live-coverage-of-apollo-11/502855.md?page=4)