{"id":42794,"date":"2020-04-11T09:15:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T13:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=42794"},"modified":"2020-04-11T09:15:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T13:15:29","slug":"today-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-apollo-13-nasa-streams-real-time-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/today-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-apollo-13-nasa-streams-real-time-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Today: On the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 13, NASA streams real-time audio!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Apollo_13_liftoff-KSC-70PC-160HR-e1586610630117.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-42796\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Apollo_13_liftoff-KSC-70PC-160HR-1018x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"629\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wilbur93016001\/status\/1248950519072198656\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wilbur<\/a>, who shared the following message on Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NASA has posted the Real Time audio of the Apollo 13 Mission on the 50 Anniversary of the launch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apolloinrealtime.org\/13\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-42797 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/apollo-13-in-real-time-1024x406.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lift off is just after 2:00 PM EST today! (Saturday April 11)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apolloinrealtime.org\/13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/apolloinrealtime.org\/13\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>WOW! Thank you so much for sharing this.\u00a0 I&#8217;m already streaming the audio. What a great soundtrack for today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Wilbur, who shared the following message on Twitter: NASA has posted the Real Time audio of the Apollo 13 Mission on the 50 Anniversary of the launch. Lift off is just after 2:00 PM EST today! (Saturday April 11) https:\/\/apolloinrealtime.org\/13\/ WOW! Thank you so much for sharing this.\u00a0 I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[8431,7136],"class_list":["post-42794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-apollo-13","tag-apollo-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-b8e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38581,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/from-the-shortwave-radio-audio-archive-voa-on-the-10th-anniversary-of-moon-landing\/","url_meta":{"origin":42794,"position":0},"title":"From the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive: VOA and BBC on the anniversary of moon landing","author":"Thomas","date":"July 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"There are a hundreds of fascinating off-air radio recordings in our Shortwave Radio Audio Archive. 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A few years back the same group posted Apollo 13 realtime audio. I listened to for days. 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