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: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Apollo 13
>
> 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
> >> From: [email protected]
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> >> Subject: Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Apollo 13
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Sheldon Harvey
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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
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> >> Ira Elbert New, III
> >> Watkinsville, Georgia
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