IRCA,
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
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.
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.
KI4SYC
Ira Elbert New, III
Watkinsville, Georgia
Proudly Serving You Since 1964.
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