Re: [Swprograms] [Internetradio] Fifty Years Of Human Spaceflight – BBC World Service examines The Yuri Gagarin Legacy

[Joe Buch <josephbuch@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rich,

Thanks for the memory jog.  The recording you remember is bound into the December 1969 issue of National Geographic. I have a copy of that issue and other issues which had Apollo and Surveyor articles.  The record is bound between pages 750 and 751.  Unfortunately, I no longer have anything that will play it.  It looks like a groove width typical of 33 1/3 LP records but there is no indication on the label of the speed.  I would not want to pull the record out anyway as that would destroy the collector's value if any.

The instructions in the article tell one how to pull away the record.  It then goes on to say, "If the record slips or makes a rumbling sound,tape it to another record."  Brilliant!! 

I bet this is also the first truly floppy disk, long before the computer memory device.

Joe Buch


--- On Mon, 4/11/11, Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Richard Cuff <rdcuff@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Internetradio] [Swprograms] Fifty Years Of Human Spaceflight – BBC World Service examines The Yuri Gagarin Legacy
> To: "Internet radio discussion" <internetradio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Joe Buch" <josephbuch@xxxxxxxxx>, "Shortwave programming discussion" <swprograms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Monday, April 11, 2011, 4:10 PM
> Unfortunately I spotted this too late
> for live-on-shortwave airing,
> but the Voice of Russia's weekly "Russian Book World"
> program featured
> a review of a newly-released book about Gagarin, "Starman:
> the Truth
> Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin" .  Last shortwave
> airing was last
> night (0105) but you can listen online for (most likely)
> several weeks
> at this URL:
> 
> http://english.ruvr.ru/radio_broadcast/28742746/48746137.html
> 
> I remember a National Geographic issue of late 1969 (I
> think) had one
> of those floppy plastic 7-inch LP records in the issue;
> Frank Borman
> narrated key developments of the US and Soviet space
> program up to the
> Apollo 11 lunar landing.
> 
> One of the audio bits was the Radio Moscow interval signal
> with a
> Russian-speaking announcer heralding the development. 
> "говорит
> москва..." ("govorit Moskva", or Moscow Calling) .
> 
> RC
> 
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Joe Buch <josephbuch@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I had a reel-to-reel tape recording of the Radio
> Moscow broadcast that got lost someplace between New Jersey
> and New Mexico on a moving van around 1978.  Luckily I had
> made a cassette copy of that tape.  It got lost someplace
> after 1995 but not before I made another dub and passed it
> to my SWL buddy, Chuck Rippel, who gave it to his daughter's
> school teacher.  That may be the only remaining copy in the
> USA if she hasn't lost it.  I hope the BBC has found
> another copy to use in their special broadcast.  It is
> truly goose-bumpy stuff.
> >
> 

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