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Old August 13th 17, 08:12 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Rob[_8_]
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Default NASA Chief Retiree's "Save the Houston Control Room" Program

JF Mezei wrote:
On 2017-08-13 14:24, Rob wrote:

Remember that a lot of the control had to be done by the astronauts
and ground crew. Key in verbs and nouns, enter parameters.
Without that, you will just have some simple routines that perform some
small step of the mission.



But if you have the tapes of telemetry received from the Apollo modules,
then you can faithfully recreate what appeared on displays in mission
control room. When you need instead of the number of satellite dishes
around the world is a PC that can generate telemetry data as it was
received in the 1970s with the same rate/timing.

(BTW, one of those satelites dishes was at Carnarvon Western Australia
where a museum was created on the site).


You would have to hope that a complete set of tapes is still available
for at least one mission.
The Apollo 11 tapes recorded at Honeysuckle Creek are known to be lost.