Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Apollo 13

[Ira Elbert New III <ien3@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

     Thanks. I was only six when the Apollo Program came to a close. I didn't know about the material being broadcast, but I do have fun reading over the transcripts from time-to-time. I don't know if the scenes were added for dramatic purposes or not, but it has always puzzled me whenever I see it. I meant to ask a long time ago and seeing it tonight on BRAVO made me think about asking. I'll ask Ron Howard the next time I see him. :) 

Ira Elbert New, IIIWatkinsville, GeorgiaProudly Serving You Since 1964.

> Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 21:37:13 -0500
> From: ng0g@xxxxxxxxx
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> Subject: Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Apollo 13
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> IRCA,
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> Several NASA installations broadcast the audio from manned space flights 
> from their facilities, on a frequency that most scanners could hear. 
> And others, like NASA Ames in the San Francisco Bay Area used to send it 
> to a one of the local Ham Radio repeaters.
> 
> I drove down to Edward AFB to watch STS-4 land and took a scanner with 
> me.  The Air Force was rebroadcasting both sides of the conversations 
> with the shuttle on a couple of different frequencies.
> 
> I guess what I am trying to say is that I can think of a couple of ways 
> she could have been hearing the audio.  Now whether or not that really 
> happened, or was it put in the movie for added drama?  I don't know.
> 
> Steve NG0G
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> On 11/3/12 10:00 PM, Ira Elbert New III wrote:
> >
> > I see the shape of the speaker now. However, the questions still remains, where's the radio? How did Marilyn Lovell have access to the communications between the crew and the ground? Oh...and they moved the speaker to several places during the movie. Kinda' bugs me and I hope someone has an answer.
> >
> > Ira Elbert New, IIIWatkinsville, GeorgiaProudly Serving You Since 1964.
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> >> Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 18:53:02 -0700
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> >> I was talking to someone just the other day about that very scene in the movie.  The speaker you see is actually the external speaker for the old Radio Shack/Realistic DX-160.  I had one, so I recognized it immediately.  All they did was stick a NASA sticker on the front of it! Another Hollywood blunder.
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> >>       Here's a question for those of you who are a lot smarter than I am...I'm watching Apollo 13 during the commercial breaks tonight while the ALA - LSU game is on. They show a couple of scenes in the movie where Jim Lovell's wife is listening to the transmissions from the spacecraft. It's a grey speaker, with a NASA logo on it, but it never appears to be attached to a radio. Anybody know anything about this? Did the families have access to the communications? It puzzles me every time I see it.
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> >> Ira Elbert New, III
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