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[Guest_Sedna_*]

Hi guys,

I think that tonight Ariane 5 ECA has shown again to be the most powerful orbiting "artifact" in the planet...

Don't you agree?

[edstrick]

I audiotaped TV coverage of the Apollo missions with direct connections to the TV speaker wires so the fidelity's pretty decent, though not true high fidelity. Starting with Apollo 14, I had a stereo recorder, and used 2 TV's with different channels on the left and right. Unfortunately, either one network's microphone would DIE, HORRIBLY as the Saturn V sound reached the press stand, or they wouldn't have an external mike, or one network would use landline and one would use a Sat link, so there'd be a 1/4 second delay between channels.. (fixable, nowdays)...

But on Apollo 16, everything worked... Walter Crankcase <grin> on one channel, NBC or ABC on the other.. Mission control and the crew in the "center" channel, and the Saturn in ***STEREO***.... ooooooooh....

I also have Saturn 501 in mono.. the first test flight.. as Walter said, at t +15 seconds.. "MY GOD! THE BUILDING'S SHAKING! THE BUILDING'S SHAKING HERE!"
It's mono... it's low-fi... but it's pretty damn decent... I gotta digitize the reel-to-reel tapes one of these millenia.

[ugordan]

I also have Saturn 501 in mono.. the first test flight.. as Walter said, at t +15 seconds..  "MY GOD!  THE BUILDING'S SHAKING!  THE BUILDING'S SHAKING HERE!"

Wow. Any chance we (well, be honest: me!) could get our hands on that recording?

EDIT: Does anyone out here own the DVD (DVDs ?) "The Mighty Saturns" which supposedly has lots of high quality video footage of these behemoths? I'm thinking of buying the collection myself, one of these days and was wondering if it'd be worth it?