NASA has released a long-hidden snippet of recorded “space sounds” – mysterious audio sound that was recorded on the surface of the Moon by astronauts of the Apollo 10 mission in 1969.
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The prime crew of the Apollo 10 lunar orbit mission at the Kennedy Space Center: (from left) lunar module pilot Eugene A. Cernan, Commander Thomas P. Stafford, command module pilot John W. Young. Responding to this, John Young, the command module lunar e pilot, says “We’re going to have to find out about that”. Another astronaut said: “It sounds like, you know, outer space-type music”.
However, the audio of the discussion and the sounds that the astronauts were referring to has just been made public. It was probably just radio interference.
So much for conspiracy theories about “music” from the dark side of the moon. Had we thought it was something other than that we would have briefed everyone after the flight.
Astronauts apparently heard whistling sounds described as “outer spacey” and “eerie”, and can be heard on the transcript discussing the noises. “We never gave it another thought”, Eugene “Gene” Cernan was quoted by NASA as saying.
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More than 40 years later, it’s not what the astronauts saw but recordings of what they heard that are making headlines. Out of radio contact with Earth and all alone on the far side of the Moon, the astronauts had not expected to hear anything on their instruments. It is unclear if the astronauts ever heard the noise on subsequent passes on the far side of the moon or if other astronauts on subsequent missions heard the sound. Later, the recordings were sent back to Mission Control where they were transcribed, archived, and classified, per protocol. They feared that it could cast doubt on their suitability for future spaceflight, according to a new Science Channel series “NASA’s Unexplained Files,”They questioned”. Fortunately the radio technicians (rather than the UFO fans) had a ready explanation for it: It was interference between the LM’s and Command Module’s VHF radios.
