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Old November 22nd 05, 05:08 PM posted to sci.space.history
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Just found Gary Neff's quindars in my apollo audio folder,


...Somehow, that sounds a bit personal :-)

OM


You ought to see my bag of googles !


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Old November 22nd 05, 05:28 PM posted to sci.space.history
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Apologies to all having trouble with the menu, I didn't realize some
browsers have probs with it. I have made a new hyperlinked only menu (just
like the old days)

http://www.adboo.com

P.S. If anyone has any other probs with my site (or suggestions, critisism,
or ideas) I'd be happy to hear from them.

Adam


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Old November 22nd 05, 07:26 PM posted to sci.space.history
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On 2005-11-21, adam bootle wrote:

Just found Gary Neff's quindars in my apollo audio folder, have put them
at the bottom of my audio webpage page

http://adboo.com/auto


Thanks Adam, Most Appreciated.


Iain
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Old November 22nd 05, 07:33 PM posted to sci.space.history
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On 2005-11-22, Pat Flannery wrote:

I'd never heard of these by name before; I take it these were the beeps
heard during the astronaut's communications with Earth.


Yes, they were, and still are I *think*, however I believe they were
generated by Ground Equipment, supplied by a company called "Quindar".
See:

http://www.legislative.nasa.gov/alsj/quindar.html

and also this thread from s.s.h (excuse wrapping):

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.s...aaf901032cd 0


Iain

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Old November 22nd 05, 09:17 PM posted to sci.space.history
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adam bootle wrote:
Apologies to all having trouble with the menu, I didn't realize some
browsers have probs with it. I have made a new hyperlinked only menu (just
like the old days)

http://www.adboo.com


As of this time, http://adboo.com/auto/QuindarPushRelease.wav and the
page it is on are working fine on Opera 8.5 on Winse XP (correct
spelling, "wince", looks too much like the would-be embedded version's
name).

/dps

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Old November 22nd 05, 09:50 PM posted to sci.space.history
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In message , adam bootle
writes

Apologies to all having trouble with the menu, I didn't realize some
browsers have probs with it. I have made a new hyperlinked only menu (just
like the old days)

http://www.adboo.com


Works fine in Mozilla 1.07.
I'm probably the 10,000th person to say this, but that mass of plumbing
on your enter page is straight out of Cornelius Ryan's "Man on the
Moon", from 1953.
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"Jonathan Silverlight" wrote
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I'm probably the 10,000th person to say this, but that mass of plumbing on
your enter page is straight out of Cornelius Ryan's "Man on the Moon",
from 1953.


Is it ? I got it from the NASA CEV page, prob someone at NASA art dept
been having a read !

Adam


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In message , adam bootle
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"Jonathan Silverlight" wrote
in message ...

I'm probably the 10,000th person to say this, but that mass of plumbing on
your enter page is straight out of Cornelius Ryan's "Man on the Moon",
from 1953.


Is it ? I got it from the NASA CEV page, prob someone at NASA art dept
been having a read !


Look at http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/lunarlan.html
Von Braun's design was much bigger, though.
James Blish would have been amused. In "They Shall Have Stars"
(published in 1956 but set in 2018) he has Senator Wagoner saying
"And what about hull design? That's still based on von Braun's work. Is
it really possible that there's nothing better than those frameworks of
hitched onions?"
And he was being optimistic, with a Titan Base in 1981.
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Old November 22nd 05, 11:38 PM posted to sci.space.history
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In article rs.com,
mike flugennock writes
...Am I the only one here who's somehow underwhelmed by the clean,
fresh, pure, noise-free quindar tones? I think part of the excitement
of those little pings was knowing that some of them were being
transmitted from a quarter-million miles out by the first humans on the
Moon, so the clean, pure, "original" version -- devoid of any
background hiss or crackling or other long-distance xmission noise --
seems robbed of its excitement.

.. . .

Nit picking time: it was my understanding that Qundar tones were
transmitted only by ground equipment, not by the spacecraft.

Let's see. . .

ALSJ seems to agree with me:

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...j/quindar.html

--
Jonathan Griffitts
AnyWare Engineering Boulder, CO, USA
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Old November 23rd 05, 12:12 AM posted to sci.space.history
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mike flugennock wrote:



*Yeah -- when the wife's job sends her out of town, I put myself to
sleep with the NASA TV All-Night PAO Reel Marathon -- no, not the
Video File, but those good old hard-boiled 60s/early 70s PAO
documentaries. Sad, huh?


'This is Saturn V. There are many questions to be answered before we can
build Saturn V."*
Yeah, they were dead serious back then....this was no feel-good stuff,
this was _rocket science_; and we were going toe-to-toe with the ruskies
over it.
Their choice of music was great also. When they showed something in
space, they'd have these strange arias that would sound like a cross
between Handel's Messiah and Forbidden Planet. The overall effect was
that the astronauts would be in some sort of religious trance from being
up in the heavens and near God.
People who didn't live through it don't realize just what a strange time
that was, and how the national space program got to be an obsession to
the degree of a religious crusade during the early 1960's.

* "Question one: Can something this fukin' big ever get off the ground?
Question two: Can we get America to ever completely trust Mr. V-2 over
there?" :-)

Pat
 




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