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Re:Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” f... by inopinatus on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @11:26AM (#24342812)
I recommend listening to the flight director loops from the Apollo missions. There are thousands of recorded hours available (various places, but try lunarmodule5’s playlists on Youtube, or https://apolloinrealtime.org/ for a museum exhibit style) - including practically the entirety of missions 8 to 13, and most especially try the notorious manual burn of 13 during which everyone sounds like they’re discussing where to have lunch, not undertaking an extraordinarily difficult and dangerous manoeuvre in a crippled spacecraft.

Sometimes I put them on as working background audio, it’s tremendously soothing.

Re:Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” f... by WorkLobster on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @11:46AM (#24343043)
"Ok, let's keep the chatter down".

I've always loved Kranz'(?) comment even more than the moment of first contact itself. As if to say "Stop cashing out on one historic achievement and work with us to make many more".

Re:Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” f... by PaulDavisThe1st on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @12:38PM (#24343631)
Re:Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” f... by peter_l_downs on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @01:35PM (#24344370)
was going to post this myself if it wasn't in the thread already :) hey paul!
Re:Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” f... by PaulDavisThe1st on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @03:52PM (#24346240)
hey peter! i admit to being more of a deep space one fan myself, but with MC, DS1 and Space Station Soma, there's something for nearly everyone.
Re:Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” f... by CalChris on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @12:11PM (#24343350)
"1202" Which translates as The guidance computer just crashed.

https://www.wired.com/story/apollo-11-mission-out-of-control...