NASA receives record number of CVs from people wanting to be astronauts However, it certainly wasn’t the otherworldly music that starting coming over the radio as they hurtled further through space than anyone had ever been. Mission transcripts reveal the three men talking about the noises and discussing what to do, but do not identify who was speaking. One of its main objectives was to practice the separation and re-docking of the lunar module (the Moon lander) and the command module (the orbiter).
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The above conversation between Apollo 10 astronauts Eugene Cernan and John Young, as their craft flew around the far side of the moon remained under wraps for over four decades.
The dark side of the moon has always held a mystical fascination for stargazers. The recordings were later sent back to Mission Control where they were transcribed, archived, and classified. However, before the radio contact was re-established, the astronauts weren’t chose to tell Mission Control about their recent experience.
Then after being declassified, the transcripts had lain in the Nasa archives until 2008. One was heard describing the sound as “outer space-type of music”, while another described it as whistling.
‘You hear that? That whistling sound?
How did the astronauts feel when they suddenly heard “space music” coming from their headsets, knowing it most probably did not come from Earth?
After 40 years, secret recordings from an Apollo mission will be revealed on the Science Channel’s series, NASA’s Unexplained Files. According to upcoming the Science Channel’s program, the crew said it could not have come from a manmade source because there is no radio signal on the far side of the Moon, meaning NASA can’t communicate with the Apollo 10 mission.
“Shall we tell [NASA] about it?” an astronaut asks.
‘I don’t know. We ought to think about it’.
On the show, Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden says: “The Apollo 10 crew was very used to the kind of noise that they should be hearing”.
According to the Huffington Post, everyone on Earth thought the mission went flawlessly, but the astronauts knew something weird had happened. During this time, all spacecraft are out of radio contact with Earth for around an hour.
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In the end, Worden says he has an open mind about it but stresses the value of evidence versus mere memory. They heard something odd, so odd that they weren’t even sure what it could have been. “Recollection is one thing, but actual proof is something entirely different”, he closes.
