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Jim__

(14,077 posts) Mon Feb 22, 2016, 06:49 PM Feb 2016

NASA releases strange 'music' heard by 1969 astronauts

At about 2 minutes into the video you hear strange sounds - I assume that's the sound they're talking about. From phys.org:

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NASA has made public a recording of strange "music" that astronauts reported hearing in 1969 while on the far side of the Moon, out of radio contact with the Earth.

The story behind these unusual whistling noises was showcased Sunday night in a show on the cable channel Discovery, as part of a series called "NASA's Unexplained Files."

The noises reportedly were heard in May 1969 by the Apollo 10 astronauts as they circled the Moon, months before the first astronauts stepped foot on the lunar surface on July 21 that same year.

The three astronauts on board were Thomas Stafford, John Young and Eugene Cernan.

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NASA releases strange 'music' heard by 1969 astronauts (Original Post) Jim__ Feb 2016 OP

I assume it's the sound, too. Wilms Feb 2016 #1

Here's the actual clip NASA released. Wilms Feb 2016 #3

Thanks for the link. Nitram Feb 2016 #7

I only heard the woo-woo part for a moment. Wilms Feb 2016 #8

Nothing new frogmarch Feb 2016 #2

All I can hear it this: tclambert Feb 2016 #4

hmmm annabanana Feb 2016 #5

It's a message, when decoded, that says ... nikto Feb 2016 #6

An Outer Limits episode Marty McGraw Feb 2016 #9

Wilms

(26,795 posts)

1. I assume it's the sound, too.

Reply to Jim__ (Original post)

Mon Feb 22, 2016, 07:28 PM

Feb 2016

But it's hard to be sure. Everything I've found is the clip you have posted. I'd like to hear the raw recording...or whatever it is...that NASA has released.

Wilms

(26,795 posts)

3. Here's the actual clip NASA released.

Reply to Wilms (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 22, 2016, 10:25 PM

Feb 2016

An MP3: http://history.nasa.gov/ap10fj/audio/a10o-1021010.mp3

It's from NASA Watch. A pretty good site.

http://nasawatch.com/archives/2016/02/no-apollo-astro.html

But why didn't they hear it when they were on the earthside of the moon?

Nitram

(22,813 posts)

7. Thanks for the link.

Reply to Wilms (Reply #3)

Thu Feb 25, 2016, 11:39 AM

Feb 2016

Doesn't really sound like music at all, to me, just flat interference. I don't get where they got the "Wooo, woo" idea.

Wilms

(26,795 posts)

8. I only heard the woo-woo part for a moment.

Reply to Nitram (Reply #7)

Thu Feb 25, 2016, 11:57 AM

Feb 2016

Overall, it does have the quality of "interference". What we refer to as such is often atmospheric condition caused. Not one radio receiving two or more signals. So I'm surprised that NASA writes it off as such. I'm not thinking "aliens"...I'm wondering if it has something to do with solar wind and the moons magnetism.

frogmarch

(12,154 posts)

2. Nothing new

Reply to Jim__ (Original post)

Mon Feb 22, 2016, 07:28 PM

Feb 2016

Article snips:

But NASA has denied the reports, releasing a statement saying: "While listed as 'confidential' in 1969 at the height of the Space Race, Apollo 10 mission transcripts and audio have been publicly available since 1973."

"Since the internet did not exist in the Apollo era, we have only recently provided digital files for some of those earlier missions," NASA said.

"The Apollo 10 audio clips were uploaded in 2012, but the mission's audio recordings have been available at the National Archives since the early 1970s."

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"I don't remember that incident exciting me enough to take it seriously," Mr Cernan said.

"It was probably just radio interference. Had we thought it was something other than that we would have briefed everyone after the flight. We never gave it another thought."

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Eugene Cernan was one of the three astronauts on board.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-23/nasa-responds-to-reports-of-'space-music'-recording/7191138