Apollo crew members Eugene Cernan and John Young heard 'outer-space' type music through their headsets
After almost 50 years when NASA's Apollo 10 lost the contact with Mission Control on Earth for an hour when they orbited into the far side of the moon, the recordings of the sounds the astronauts heard has been released.
"Did you hear that whistling sound too?" "Sounds like -- you know, outer-space type music." "I wonder what it is." You can hear the Apollo 10 astronauts Eugene Cernan and John Young talking to ground control. Cernan and John Young talking to ground control.
According to media reports, The transcripts of the conversation were released in 2008. The audio has just been made public by the NASA. To which NASA replied on their Tumblr page - "While listed as ‘confidential’ in 1969 at the height of the Space Race, Apollo 10 mission transcripts and audio have been publicly available since 1973. Since the Internet did not exist in the Apollo era, we have only recently provided digital files for some of those earlier missions. The Apollo 10 audio clips were uploaded in 2012, but the mission’s audio recordings have been available at the National Archives since the early 1970s."
Away from the planet Earth with cut-off communications, Apollo 10 astronauts were not expecting this to be heard through any of their instruments.
Eugene Cernan in a statement released by NASA said that he and the crew never thought the incident to be exciting. "I don't remember that incident exciting me enough to take it seriously. It was probably just radio interference. Had we thought it was something other than that we would have briefed everyone after the flight. We never gave it another thought," he said.
Members of Apollo 10 mission were not the only ones who heard these whistling sounds on the far side of the moon. Michael Collins, the pilot of Apollo 11 recalls hearing some strange sounds as he flew around and his teammates Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were exploring the surface of the moon, reports CNN.com
In his book, Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys, he wrote that he heard eerie woo-woo sounds through his headset. He also recalls that because he was warned about these noises, he was not scared. "Fortunately, the radio technicians (rather than the UFO fans) had a ready explanation for it: it was interference between the LM's and Command Module's VHF radios," he writes.
Collins explained that the noise began when the radios in the two vehicles were both turned on and in close proximity to each other.
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