We can have a pretty good idea. Picture yourself deep in cislunar space. There's a loud explosion. Your spacecraft starts tumbling. Your indicators are going nuts. Alarms are going off.
You or I might say "Holy ****. What's going on?! Help?! We're gonna die!"
What was actually said?
02 07 55 20 CDR I believe we've had a problem here.
02 07 55 28 CC This is Houston. Say again, please.
02 07 55 35 CDR Houston, we've had a problem. We've had a MAIN B BUS UNDERVOLT.
02 07 55 42 CC Roger. MAIN B UNDERVOLT.
02 07 55 58 CC Okay, stand by, 13. We're looking at it.
02 07 56 l0 LMP Okay. Right now, Houston, the voltage is - is looking good. And we had a pretty large bang associated with the CAUTION AND WARNING there. And as I recall, MAIN B was the one that had had an amp spike on it once before.
It goes on like that. Test pilots don't freak out over much.
Never mind the fact that everything else about the story is bogus.
Otto Binder did not work at NASA.
Binder briefly quit comics in late 1960, to become editor of Space World magazine, returning to comics in 1964 for a further five years, before leaving again in 1969, devoting the rest of his life to science fiction.
en.wikipedia.org...
Maurice Chatelain was not "chief of NASA Communications Systems".
The conversation could not have been "picked up by ham radio operators that had their own VHF receiving facilities that bypassed NASA’s broadcasting outlets."
Bogus.
edit on 9/23/2010 by Phage because: (no reason given)
