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Apollo 11 in Real Time

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Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

#101

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mykowebhn wrote: post #46

Bravo to you! Thank you for doing this! This is what the Internet was supposed to be! What we get 99.9999999999 percent of the time is ad-promoted garbage that is as bad IMO as watching mindless tv. Your site is that 0.0000000001 percent that truly transcends and brings back hope that we can take the Internet back and make it something truly great.

Thanks so much. It's been suggested to me countless times that I put promotions on the site or (gasp) enable monetization on the YouTube video portion of the site. Nope. Like you, I dream of the Internet being a better place--the place it was in 1997 but with modern technology.

Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

#102

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gouggoug wrote: post #88

Amazing website. I've been listening to the audio and a few seconds after the 171:04:22 mark, on the CAPCOM channel we can hear the voice of a woman that seems completely out of place. She seems to be saying "Howdy". Anybody knows where this voice comes from?

Sounds like someone's secretary. All phone calls from console were recorded. This is one of those.

Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

#103

Post by bfeist »

bfeist wrote: post #102
gouggoug wrote: post #88

Amazing website. I've been listening to the audio and a few seconds after the 171:04:22 mark, on the CAPCOM channel we can hear the voice of a woman that seems completely out of place. She seems to be saying "Howdy". Anybody knows where this voice comes from?

Sounds like someone's secretary. All phone calls from console were recorded. This is one of those.

BTW, you can generate links to any channel at any time by clicking the little link button when the mission control audio console is open. Here's the moment in question: https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/?t=171:04:09&ch=14

Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

#104

Post by bfeist »

ehsankia wrote: post #58
rkagerer wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I was a little confused about how to go back to Master, too. Agreed this site is mindblowing - thanks for all the hard work!

From my understanding, whenever you click on a track it switches to "Mission Control Audio" tab near the top. Clicking "Photography" takes you back to the master audio. Definitely a little confusing. The "photography" label should maybe be master track?

Thanks for the fresh eyes on this. Just added a "close" button on the mission control audio interface that pops you back to the photography tab and unmutes master audio.

Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

#105

Post by matchagaucho »

The individual console and telemetry feeds redefines how to appreciate the technical effort involved with this mission.

This definitely belongs in the Smithsonian on display with it's own interactive kiosk.

Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

#106

Post by bfeist »

ManuelKiessling wrote: post #72
bfeist wrote: post #3

Thanks for the share. I'm the author of the site and am happy to answer any questions.

You, Sir, have impressed me like no single person doing work on the web has ever before.

But I'm cheating though using the most interesting and engaging content in human history :)

Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

#107

Post by bfeist »

kzrdude wrote: post #57

Extraordinary, it's true. Note to others: On mobile it's interesting but only has audio. I had to look at the desktop version to understand why everyone was so amazed about the site.

I couldn't think of another way to make mobile work at all. It's asking a lot of the browser

Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

#108

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rcardo11 wrote: post #90

My 16gb 3.2 GHz MacBook Pro is on fire reproducing this. 50 years ago they went to the moon and back with far less resources.

It definitely pushes the browser to its limit. Suggest cleaning your head sink though, it's not that bad.

Re: Apollo 11 in Real Time

#109

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pepijndevos wrote: post #79

For some reason my dad can't get in. The cursor is just a (/) when you mouse over the join now button. Is the site overloaded? Is something wrong on his end?

Tell him to turn off ad block or antivirus. If he's unable to load in the mission data files through ajax the site will just hang on the splash screen.
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