{"id":19457,"date":"2016-02-22T22:55:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T14:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/apollo-10s-moon-music-mystery-revisited\/"},"modified":"2016-02-22T22:55:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T14:55:18","slug":"apollo-10s-moon-music-mystery-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/apollo-10s-moon-music-mystery-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 10\u2019s moon music mystery revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_231992\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-231992\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-231992\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/160222-apollo1-630x471.jpg\" alt=\"Apollo 10 crew\" width=\"630\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/160222-apollo1-630x471.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/160222-apollo1-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/160222-apollo1-1240x927.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-231992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apollo 10\u2019s Gene Cernan, Tom Stafford and John Young sit for their official portrait. (Credit: NASA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Where did the weird, outer-spacey music that Apollo 10\u2019s astronauts heard on the far side of the moon come from? The case&nbsp;was solved decades ago. <em>Or was it???<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNASA\u2019s Unexplained&nbsp;Files,\u201d airing on the Science Channel, leaves the mystery hanging in a show that\u2019s due to air this season. The program also makes it sound as if the case was hushed up until 2008, for fear that its disclosure would unsettle the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShall we tell them about it?\u201d astronaut John Young is heard saying on an audio recording. Crewmate&nbsp;Gene Cernan replies, \u201cI don\u2019t know. We ought to think about it some.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Outer Space Music Pt 1 of 2 | NASA's Unexplained Files\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bjLZBrQ-Oq4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The show\u2019s narrator says the mystery continues to this day.&nbsp;\u201cI suspect there\u2019s a very, very clear cause of what they heard on Apollo 10, which maybe we haven\u2019t uncovered yet, \u201d Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden says in an interview.<\/p>\n<p>But the way NASA and other Apollo astronauts tell it, the mystery was solved soon after Apollo 10\u2019s crew returned from their 1969 round-the-moon trip: They say the \u201cwoo-woo\u201d music was VHF interference between the radios on the command module and the lunar landing module.<\/p>\n<p>Far from being hushed up, the crew\u2019s chatter has been included in publicly available mission transcripts and audio files since 1973, although NASA waited until 2012 to digitize the audio for its Internet archives.<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" style=\"position: static; visibility: visible; width: 0px; height: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=b0yle&amp;dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=701772434270191618&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.geekwire.com%2F2016%2Fapollo-10s-mystery-moon-music-revisited%2F&amp;sessionId=93c4749f7589a2c2f722e7a5b27737c1d1511dce&amp;siteScreenName=geekwire&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=6a3ad42b224df%3A1778106238597&amp;width=550px\" data-tweet-id=\"701772434270191618\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" data-twitter-extracted-i1782804892593864687=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">#Apollo10 transcripts here for years: https:\/\/t.co\/gHrrR0lxWr Audio uploaded in 2012: https:\/\/t.co\/F8X8vaT4J2 (2\/2) pic.twitter.com\/hro7L8dYdG<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NASA History Office (@NASAhistory) February 22, 2016<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The astronauts for the Apollo 11 moon landing&nbsp;\u2013 which came two months after Apollo 10&nbsp;\u2013 were told about the VHF moon music before their launch. And it\u2019s a good thing they got the word.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad I not been warned about it, it would have scared the hell out of me,\u201d Apollo 11 command module pilot Michael Collins wrote in his 1974 memoir, \u201cCarrying the Fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chalk this up as another Apollo X-Files case that needs to be re-debunked, alongside the Apollo 11 UFO sighting and the&nbsp;alien spacecraft and structures purportedly seen on the moon\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apollo 10\u2019s Gene Cernan, Tom Stafford and John Young sit for their official portrait. (Credit: NASA) Where did the weird, outer-spacey music that Apollo 10\u2019s astronauts heard on the far side of the moon come from? The case&nbsp;was solved decades ago. Or was it??? \u201cNASA\u2019s Unexplained&nbsp;Files,\u201d airing on the Science Channel, leaves the mystery hanging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1651,3462,625,190,4029,4551,5580],"class_list":["post-19457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-apollo","tag-apollo-10","tag-moon","tag-nasa","tag-space-history","tag-television","tag-weird-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}