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bfeist
7y ago
Sounds like someone's secretary. All phone calls from console were recorded. This is one of those.
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bfeist
7y ago
Thanks so much. It's been suggested to me countless times that I put promotions on the site or (gasp) enable monetization on the YouTube video portion of the site. Nope. Like you, I dream of the Internet being a better place--the place
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bfeist
7y ago
No relation. That was a paid campaign by the JFK Library done by Martin Agency. The good old days of Flash :)
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bfeist
7y ago
Yes and no. You can find the Apollo17.org source code that this site has extended, here https://github.com/bfeist/Apollo17 . That said, the media elements and photography and some of the other material isn't on git
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bfeist
7y ago
Yes. It's a way to drop in on today's time of day within the mission. During the actual anniversary in July, it will drop you in 50 years earlier to-the-second.
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7y ago
Thanks very much. I'm a NASA contractor now, so it it's partially a NASA project from that perspective. Can you post some examples of "slow entertainment"? I like that this website might be fitting a genre I didn't
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bfeist
7y ago
About 2 years. I did a similar site for Apollo 17 before this one (Apollo17.org), which took 6 years. This time I knew what I was doing and could just do it.
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7y ago
It's a bit of a messy bedroom. Ideally, I'd get some real software devs involved to rewrite it using a modern framework. This is just a pile of JS and some JQuery. One thing of note is that there's no server-side services in
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bfeist
7y ago
If you know the right people, please send them the URL
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7y ago
Holy 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 breath
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7y ago
Here you go: https://archive.org/details/nasaaudiocollection Or if you want the trippy version: https://somafm.com/missioncontrol/
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bfeist
7y ago
Yes. I decided to no longer buy a domain name for each one after a cybersquatter swiped apollo11.org (like I have any money)
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7y ago
Just did both. Thanks!
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bfeist
7y ago
I have. They're not interested.
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bfeist
7y ago
Great to hear. I'm so close to it, at this point I have no idea if it's usable or confusing.
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bfeist
7y ago
Definitely. I'll be posting at benfeist.com in the coming days. I needed to get it out there first!
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bfeist
7y ago
Thanks for the share. I'm the author of the site and am happy to answer any questions.
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11y ago
Hi again everyone. Today's the actual anniversary of the launch. As of 9:55pm EST, Dec 6, and until Dec 19th (when the mission ends), http://apollo17.org/?t=rt will drop you into the mission exactly 43 years ago to the
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11y ago
I made it in these steps: - OCR data - Create timeline in premiere, time media to orig transcript (36 8-hour videos) - clean data by watching premiere by reading along OCRed data - Sync data with youtube playback via JS - create navigation
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11y ago
Hi everyone, Thanks for the props. I'm the author of apollo17.org. I really appreciate the post.