NASA Discusses Apollo 10 Mission Secrets

Thanks to the latest episode of NASA’s Unexplained Files documentary, where NASA discusses Apollo 10 mission secrets, the public is once more shown the events that took place on the spacecraft decades ago. It is not the first time that we get to see with our own eyes the transcript of everything that happened in the several hours that the astronauts spent on the dark side of the Moon and outside radio range.

The transcript was originally declassified and made public back in 2008, and anyone can personally access and read it here. And one of the reasons anyone who has ever read it knows that there was more than just one peculiar phenomenon back on the deck of the spacecraft orbiting our moon. The most popular one, and the one showcased in the NASA documentary was the ‘space music’ incident.

While the crew of the Apollo 10 were practicing the separation and re-docking of the lunar module and the command module that later got used on the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission, the craft went outside of radio reach on the far side of the moon. And this is where it happened: all the crew seemed to hear and discuss a series of sounds, a series they described as weird music, or ‘outer spacey’ music.

All 3 astronauts present on the Apollo 10 seemed to attempt to remain focused on the task and would still mention the sounds every few minutes for the entire duration of the procedure. But it was certainly something that made them uneasy and baffled anyone who has ever heard them. The simple fact that this was something occurring while the crew of the Apollo 10 was outside of radio communication range only made the event even more frightening.

The documentary takes a closer look to the sounds in question and even gives the viewers a snippet of them as they remained on a recording since the lunar orbit mission. There are several scientist voices even discussing what could have caused them. While some people suggest the eerie sounds could have been the result of charged particles creating interference in the radio communications; others hurry to explain that could not have been the case as the Moon has no atmosphere or magnetic field – similar to Saturn that makes some sounds strangely familiar to what the astronauts heard on the far side of the moon.

The theme is thoroughly discussed in the latest episode of the NASA’s Unexplained Files documentary. It took nearly 40 years for the transcript to finally have its contents released and another 8 for that content to be discussed by NASA officials. You can catch the several minute footage of these events on the Science Channel.

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