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Truly incredible work. The multitrack visualization is a really great UI, and it does wonders communicating just how much teamwork went into managing these miss
by btown 7y ago
Truly incredible work. The multitrack visualization is a really great UI, and it does wonders communicating just how much teamwork went into managing these missions. I had no idea all the mission control workstations were recorded, and how active they all were even when the crew was doing an unrelated task.
Some small thoughts: when a desk is selected it would be great to deselect it by clicking it again to go back to the master audio. And it would also be great to have the selected button highlight when signal is/isn’t present - perhaps a lighter blue color? That way a user can build an intuition about what a lit button/region that they’re not listening to means.
Oh, and it would be fascinating to see a statistical comparison of channel activity in Apollo 11 vs. 13 :)
Honestly this is mind blowing. Your site deserves national attention, display on major news networks, millions reliving the behind-the-scenes teamwork that led to IMO the greatest human accomplishment in history. Huge kudos.
- bfeist 7y agoHoly moly, thanks for the kudos and great suggestions, too. I'll work on the two-tone selected button tomorrow. I have almost all of the Apollo 13 mission control audio as well. That's the next project (but I want to take a breather for at least a day!)
- lisper 7y agoI know that "me-to" type comments are generally frowned upon here on HN but really do feel the need to pile on in this case: this is wicked cool.
- zmix 7y agoEnthusiasm should not be dampened! So I say: Mee too!
- sgt101 7y agoThank you for doing this; I hope you are able to take a couple of weeks of serious beach time and recharge yourself properly for the next one!
- rkagerer 7y agoYeah I was a little confused about how to go back to Master, too. Agreed this site is mindblowing - thanks for all the hard work!
- ehsankia 7y agoFrom my understanding, whenever you click on a track it switches to "Mission Control Audio" tab near the top. Clicking "Photography" takes you back to the master audio. Definitely a little confusing. The "photography" label should maybe be master track?
- bfeist 7y agoThanks for the fresh eyes on this. Just added a "close" button on the mission control audio interface that pops you back to the photography tab and unmutes master audio.