"Houston, we have a problem" - A story of air-to-ground voice transmissions from the US manned space program
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IAF-02-IAA-2.4.08
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U.S.A.
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2002
- abstract
America's manned civil space program unfolded before the public through a vast array of sights and sounds. Beginning with Alan Shepard's first flight into space and continuing through the early Space Shuttle program, nearly every word spoken between space craft and space center was recorded, transcribed and published for the world to see. This paper presents a history of these voice transmissions, their resulting mission transcripts and what is being done to help preserve these valuable resources and make them more accessible to the public.