March 13, 2020 05:09 pm
Fred Haise, James Lovell, and John Swigert after splashing down from Apollo 13 | Image: NASA
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/13/21178364/apollo-13-in-real-time-website-50th-anniversary-history
This website lets you relive Apollo 13 in real time through historical transcripts, footage, and audio
Fred Haise, James Lovell, and John Swigert after splashing down from Apollo 13 | Image: NASA
The 50th anniversary of NASA’s infamous Apollo 13 mission is almost here, and a new website just went live today that will let you relive the heart-wrenching journey as if it were happening live. The website, called Apollo 13 in Real Time, provides transcripts, video footage, and audio recordings surrounding the historical flight, posting the material at the exact times they were created half a century ago.
The website is the creation of Ben Feist, a contractor at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston who did a similar project for the Apollo 11 anniversary last summer. It took a team of people eight months to gather all of the historical material for the mission, he says. All in all, the website contains about 90 percent of the...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/13/21178364/apollo-13-in-real-time-website-50th-anniversary-history
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