It is said that background music can promote cognitive performance or impair it depending on the genre and the type of activity. Some prefer binaural beats instead because they find music distracting. Strangely enough I can concentrate against the backdrop of space shuttles radio transmission. I just like that muffled sound, it feels like being with the crew on the cockpit isolating oneself form the earth and its problems, and only focusing on the mission at hand.
A sample
The best of both worlds
The last track of Daft Punk's album "Random access memories" is one of my favorites not only because of the nice beats, but because it features audio recordings from the last manned mission to the moon. The choice was genius in my opinion. It gives the impression that the pilot Gene (Eugene Cernan) spotted something mysterious in what appears to be the first contact with aliens.
Eugene Cernan:“Hey Bob I’m looking at what Jack was talking about and it’s definitely not a particle that’s nearby. It is a bright object and it’s obviously rotating because it’s flashing, it’s way out in the distance, certainly rotating in a very rhythmic fashion because the flashes come around almost on time. As we look back at the earth it’s up at about 11 o’clock, about maybe ten or twelve diame…Earth diameters. I don’t know whether that does you any good, but there’s something out there.”
Found 'em
After some research I found the recordings of the Apollo 17 mission in audio format digitized from original reel-to-reel tapes, as well as the scanned documents of the transcript, and below a real-time recreation of the mission using photographs, TV broadcast, and NASA footage.. Enjoy!
No contact
Cernan was not looking at anything UFO-related (although it WAS an Unidentified Flying Object), The spinning object was nothing but the released engine used to propel the spacecraft aka S-IV B as his fellow astronaut clarified later.
Jack(Harrison Schmitt): “That’s the side of the S-IVB and then the engine bell, Gene.”
The post picture: Space shuttle endeavor emerging from the clouds in its last mission the STS-134. You can watch the final launch here
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