See the second photo down here. 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.
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
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/.
And here’s a commercial 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.
Just logged on to 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.
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.