posted 11-30-2010 06:37 PM               

Read the stories of early space exploration from the original NASA transcripts. Now open to the public in a searchable, linkable format.

How the site works

The main textual content of this site comes from a transcript of radio communications between the crew and mission control; there are some limitations which stem from the original recordings.

Each line starts with a timestamp, in Ground Elapsed Time, which is the time (in days, hours, minutes and seconds) since lift off; photographs are shown inline at a suitable place. You can navigate through the transcript using the phases of the mission, and key scenes within them, or search for things that might interest you using the box at the top of the page. While browsing through the transcript, there are also links that take you to the same place in the original typescript.

You can help

This site can be improved, and you can help -- whether by correcting remaining errors (although we hope there aren't many left), by adding more photos, or marking further glossary items. We would also be keen to talk to people about cleaning and converting transcripts and other information from other space missions, particularly for the early NASA missions in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, where transcripts are already available.

posted 12-01-2010 12:30 AM               

For small errors, it's probably easiest to just email them through to us at team@spacelog.com.

posted 12-01-2010 06:45 PM               

I found a minor transcription error in the Apollo 13 section and notified them.

http://apollo13.spacelog.org/03:08:26:00/#sho

i don't know what causad it.

Should read ...
I don't know what caused it.