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Audio recorded at Honeysuckle Creek

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Some highlights for your enjoyment – here are some clips I digitised from tapes recorded at Honeysuckle Creek. (Some audio is via the other MSFN stations when Honeysuckle was not tracking.)

They are all encoded at 64kb/s.

* indicates from a tape preserved by Hamish Lindsay.
The other clips are from tapes recorded by Bernard Scrivener.
Start GET Notes

002:27:21

GO for TLI. (0'10", 570kb)*

002:31:26

TLI burn. – Starts 0'25" before S-IVB ignition.
Comms apparently through the Mercury.(10'42", 5.6MB)*

003:35:57

We have a beautiful view of Florida now. (0'36", 780kb)*
003:58:30 Receiving VHF music. (0'12", 600kb)*
004:17:01 Where are you relative to the booster? (1'52", 1.4MB)*
004:26:37 Anything more on this separation manoeuvre? (1'14", 1.1MB)*
004:58:23 Weather observations. ‘The window is bigger than the Earth…’ (1'20", 1.1MB)*
012:03:01 S-Band Comm Test – ‘Unbelievably good’. ( 13'28", 7MB)
017:16:54 Spacecraft lighting. (1'14", 1.1MB)*
023:11:45 No need for midcourse correction. (0'52", 910kb)*
031:21:51 Deke – words on your health. (0'49", 890kb)*
038:44:47 Mike Dinn at Honeysuckle speaks with the crew during comms problems. Downlink audio only. (0'32", 760kb)*
042:44:55 Cabin getting chilly. (1'44", 1.3MB)*
062:04:00 Houston through Honeysuckle (echo on downlink – monitoring downlink plus Net 1?). (0'50", 920kb)*
   
   
   
069:32:59 HSK AOS at emergence on lunar Rev 1. (2'14", 1.6MB)*
069:51:02 What does the ole Moon look like from sixty miles? (2'46", 1.8MB)*
069:55:28 Over to my right are the Pyrenees. (2'22", 1.6MB)*
070:00:00 The terminator is quite sharp. (0'23", 680kb)*
070:03:17 Are you sure you didn’t turn off the transmitters at that time? Some crosstalk. (0'38", 800kb)*
070:04:14 We want a Go for every rev please. (0'21", 665kb)*
070:08:36 Any words on Earthshine? Some crosstalk. (1'22", 1.1MB)
084:39:43 I wouldn’t be anywhere else tonight – TK Mattingly. (0'21", 670kb)*
   
086:06:40 Genesis Reading (echo on downlink – monitoring downlink plus Net 1?). (2'05", 1.5MB)*
   
   

I aim to add more newly-digitised highlights in the lead-up to December 21. Please check back.

Previously uploaded audio (mostly encoded at a lower bitrate) is on the Honeysuckle website, Apollo 8 section.
   
   

tape
One of the quarter inch audio tapes of Apollo 8 recorded at Honeysuckle Creek.

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