The truth about the ‘strange’ sounds of the moon – FORTUNE

(CNN Spanish) – On Monday, media published articles about revealing audios “secrets” about strange sounds recorded by the Apollo 10 mission to the moon in 1969 .

Many users began to speculate on the reasons why that information had not been disclosed and even spoke of conspiracies and evidence of extraterrestrial life.

But, unlike what some have said, NASA did not hide these audios and the newly revealed.

The space agency issued a statement saying that both transcription and audio are public since 1973.

“Although they were classified as ‘confidential’ in 1960 in full space race , transcripts and audio of Apollo 10 have been public since 1973.

audio clips of Apollo 10 were uploaded to the Internet in 2012, buts recordings have been available in the National Archive since the early 1970s “NASA said.

In addition, the low agency tone to the mystery: “The Lunar Pilot Apollo 10 Gene Cernan said Monday.” I do not remember the incident thrill me sufficiently to take him seriously was probably just radial interference. If we thought it was something else would have informed everyone after the flight. we never thought about it anymore. ‘ ”

The scientific explanation

The issue became the talk of the world for the new series NASA’s Unexplained Files ( files unexplained NASA Science Channel).

However, although the advancement of the series (and media coverage as a result) emphasizes nature “unexplained” sound, the truth is probably more scientific than science fiction.

A NASA technician explains in the program that “radios in each of the two ships-the lunar module and the module of command were interfering with the other.”

That explanation is disputed by astronaut Al Worden, who says in the program that “logic tells me that if anything was recorded there, then there’s something there.”

Worden’s assertion that the sounds can not be explained is not shared by his colleagues, however.

Michael Collins, pilot of Apollo 11 and the first person to fly around the far side of the moon (as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin explored the Moon’s surface), also recalled hearing strange sounds, but did not think a lot.

“There is a strange sound in my headphones at the time, a strange sound woo-woo” he wrote in his book Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journeys .

“If there had not been warned about it, I would have scared a lot (…) Fortunately the radio technicians (and non-fans of UFOs) already had an explanation for that. Was interference between VHF radios of lunar control modules.

Collins said the noise started when the radii of the two vehicles were both on and close to one another.

Unlike Apollo 10, the lunar module of Apollo 11 landed on the satellite, after which the sounds “woo-woo” stopped.

So that’s the truth about the alleged “space music”.

With input from James Griffiths CNN