Houston, we have a podcast.

Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

episode 90, The Heroes Behind the Heroes, part 3.

I'm Pat Ryan, looking forward to bringing you the next chapter in this story.

So far we've met Dr. John Hanson and learned about the goals of his academic research to develop

machines that can understand human speech and about how he discovered the audio recordings

from Mission Control Houston during the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon and

wanted to use them to explore the use of language by large groups of people working together to solve

problems, more than just asking your phone how to cook a brisket.

What we followed him in his team as they struggled to find new hardware to outfit a 50-year-old

audio tape player that they needed so that they could listen in on the

flight control team in 1969. When we left our heroes, they'd pulled a rabbit out of a hat and found an audio

playback head that could read 30 channels at once, just the thing they needed. And if you've

been following this story, you can guess that this means they're following this story you can guess that this means they're about to encounter the next roadblock

and you'd be right.

That's where we start part three of the Heroes Behind the Heroes.

Here we go. P minus five seconds I get to county.

Mark.

Mission start.

B zero.

A long,

Mr. Mr.

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