"Let's Everybody Keep Cool"
April 19, 2018 11:36 AM   Subscribe

You've probably heard the infamous audio "Houston, we've had a problem" from the Apollo 13 mission and the ensuing communications from mission control to the spacecraft, but have you ever heard the stuff even the astronauts didn't hear? Eavesdrop on flight directors Gene Kranz, Glynn Lunney, and the rest of the gang in mission control as they try to work out the problem from the ground and what they can do to fix it without jeopardizing the lives of the crew. It doesn't cover launch to splash down, but a lot of the critical parts are there. Long, but well worth your time! (MLYT)
posted by Krazor (12 comments total) 46 users marked this as a favorite
 
I am SO geeking-out here.
posted by Thorzdad at 12:29 PM on April 19, 2018


Kranz is cool as a cucumber under what must be tremendous stress. Amazing.
posted by CynicalKnight at 12:48 PM on April 19, 2018 [1 favorite]


What always gets me about some of these NASA conversation loops is I swear _someone_ ends up getting like 6 different conversations and still manages to follow them and act on them. I get goddamn tetchy if I have side conversations while I'm working a sev1, and these guys are just integrating it no problem.

(I mean like Charlie Duke on Apollo 11, for example.)
posted by Kyol at 12:54 PM on April 19, 2018 [1 favorite]


All these years I've been told, "Houston, we have a problem," and only NOW they're telling me it's supposed to be more grammatically sophisticated?
posted by rhizome at 1:34 PM on April 19, 2018 [1 favorite]


"Houston, we've had a problem"
Like how "One small step for man" became "One small step for A man".
It seems like everything NASA-related gets misquoted... next you'll tell me Buzz Aldrin didn't call the moon-landing-denialist he punched out an"asshole"...
posted by oneswellfoop at 2:39 PM on April 19, 2018 [3 favorites]


"Main B-Bus Undervolt," for your 13-related listening pleasure.
posted by adamgreenfield at 2:40 PM on April 19, 2018 [2 favorites]


Like how "One small step for man" became "One small step for A man".

Funnily enough, Neil was asked specifically about this and he said he didn't remember which one he said, but that they had the fastest vox switches possible (essentially an automatic walkie-talkie button). So expect it to become a deep-state conspiracy once the chuds run out of current events.
posted by rhizome at 2:50 PM on April 19, 2018 [3 favorites]


I'll listen to this later with the lights out and try to absorb some of it. I supervise a small crew of animation storyboard artists and when things go wrong, I'm like Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon.
posted by bonobothegreat at 2:58 PM on April 19, 2018 [5 favorites]


Yeah, I should probably play this for my coworkers they next time they start freaking out over a brief downtime in our development labs.
posted by tobascodagama at 4:34 PM on April 19, 2018 [2 favorites]


I love this. And I love that it's "Houston, we've had a problem." For them, the problem is already in the past. What they are focussed on now is dealing with it.
posted by YoungStencil at 8:36 AM on April 20, 2018


I’m DYING for the 5th (and 6th?) loops. Anyone know where to find them? Or how?
posted by beckybakeroo at 8:25 AM on April 21, 2018


@beckybakeroo

http://apollo13realtime.org/ uses audio from https://archive.org/details/Apollo13Audio and the github page references the YouTube videos from this post, but I haven't had a chance to see if the archive.org files contain additional loops or not.
posted by hankscorpio83 at 1:24 PM on April 26, 2018 [1 favorite]


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