Houston, we have a podcast.

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

Episode 88, The Heroes Behind the Heroes.

I'm Pat Ryan, your host for a special edition of the podcast.

Ordinarily, we talked to NASA scientists and engineers and astronauts and others

about the cool stuff they're doing right now.

But this time, we're going to veer off that course a bit and let me tell you why

Several months ago I was in a regular meeting where we talk about stories the NASA Public Affairs Office in Houston could or should do and well you know how meetings can get I suddenly

snapped to a story that one of my coworkers was pitching it had to do with a

university professor from Dallas and some of his students who had worked with voice

recordings of the flight control team in Houston during the first moon landing and they

had to make use of an enormous piece of ancient audio equipment that has lived in one of the rooms here in our production facilities for years.

It's a big green monster that I have never ever seen in operation even one time.

Well the more he told of the story the more it struck me as a terrific mystery.

Well not exactly a who-done it, but maybe how they do that. Or they did what? Well, you'll

see as we go along. So I talked to him more after the meeting and we agreed to try to produce

this story for the podcast.

His name is Greg Wiseman.

He's one of the audio engineers in the Media Production Services Department here at

JSC, and you'll hear him as part of the ensemble of voices we're about to unleash on you.

What's coming up now is the story we fleshed out, starting with Greg's recollection, plus

podcast interviews I did with eight people who lived the story and narration by me as a means

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