NASA - Apollo 15 Radio - Madrid Station & Mission Control - Tape 545/546

NASA - Apollo 15 Radio - Madrid Station & Mission Control - Tape 545/546

The Apollo 15 crew of David Scott, Alfred Worden, and James Irwin were en route to the Moon after the Trans-Lunar Injection burn. This is a recording, thats been slightly modified and cleaned up. It's from Tape 545 and 546. These two tapes together cover roughly the middle of the translunar coast — the spacecraft was still in the three-day journey toward the Moon, somewhere around late July 27 into July 28, 1971. Madrid Station was one of three 85-foot dish antenna stations — Goldstone (California), Madrid (Spain), and Honeysuckle Creek (Australia) — spaced around the world to provide continuous 24-hour coverage of the Moon. As the Earth rotated, the spacecraft would drift out of range of one station and into range of another, requiring a formal handover.  * So what those opening words almost certainly capture is a station handover — the moment Madrid was acquiring the signal from Apollo 15 and formally taking over tracking responsibility from whichever station had it before (likely Goldstone, given the time of day). Voice and data communications to all these stations from Mission Control were routed through the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and subsequently through subsidiary switching centres at Canberra, London, Madrid, and Honolulu. * At mission hour 17, the launch was at 13:34 UTC on July 26, putting you at roughly 06:30 UTC on July 27 — early morning in Spain, when Madrid's antenna would naturally be taking over from Goldstone as Earth rotated. The timing fits perfectly. * A Communications Technician at the tracking station monitored all traffic and checked the best channel was being used. What you're likely hearing at the very start of the tape is that technician or a network controller in Houston formally announcing that Madrid has acquired the signal and is now the prime station — a routine but significant moment that marked the start of each new coverage window

NASA - Apollo 15 Radio - 52 Thousand Miles From Earth - Tape 543/544

The Apollo 15 crew of David Scott, Alfred Worden, and James Irwin were en route to the Moon after the Trans-Lunar Injection burn. This is a recording, thats been slightly modified and cleaned up. Its from Tape 543 and 544 Here is a brief summary of events that happened that day - After TLI - The Translunar Coast (where tape 543 fits) Once the TLI burn was complete, the crew's velocity had built to around 35,000 feet per second at cut-off, though this was already dropping as they climbed away from Earth. The estimated time of their closest approach to the Moon was 78 hours, 34 minutes into the mission. The task immediately ahead was separating the Command Service Module from the S-IVB stage, docking with the Lunar Module Falcon, and extracting it — in what was, up to that point, shaping up to be a completely nominal mission. NASA [https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/ap15fj/03tde.html] Transposition, Docking & Extraction After TLI, the spent S-IVB stage needed careful management — its propellant tanks, though well insulated, were only designed to last through boost and a few hours past injection, and the building internal pressures were vented regularly to prevent tank rupture. The venting was done through opposing openings to avoid imparting unwanted rotation on the stage. In about three days' time, the spent booster would impact the Moon at 1°31'S, 11°49'W. NASA [https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/ap15fj/03tde.html] Early Mission Drama - SPS Troubleshooting One of the most dramatic early events, covered in its own journal chapter, was a problem with the Service Propulsion System (SPS) engine - the critical engine needed both to enter lunar orbit and to return home. Mission Control spent considerable time troubleshooting it before giving the crew a "go" for a normal mission. Tape 543 in context Given that the tape collection starts at 540 and the TLI burn happens around the 2-hour mark of the mission, tape 543 most likely covers the very first hours of the translunar coast — the three-day journey to the Moon. At this stage the crew would have been performing the docking and extraction of the Lunar Module, running spacecraft systems checks, and beginning the slow, quiet coast towards the Moon while Mission Control monitored everything from Houston.

Real Apollo 15 NASA Audio Space Radio Ambience

This recording is a carefully curated blend of excerpts and segments taken from various early archived audio recordings released by NASA. Featuring the original NASA radio communications between Commander David Scott, Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin, and Command Module Pilot Alfred Worden.

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