More Leaps
Giant Leaps is a semester-long celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the Apollo moon landing — and an exploration of how we might apply the lessons of the Apollo Program to the world we live in today, as well as the one we're going to inhabit in the future.
The Giant Leaps celebration culminates with a series of events from June 10-12, but there are also a number of related programs happening throughout the spring on the MIT campus and beyond it. Explore some of the ways you can get involved in the lessons of Apollo and share in the collective knowledge of our future.
Apollo, the iMix
Apollo astronauts were provided with portable tape recorders to record verbal notations. They often brought with them pre-recorded music tapes to play during the mission. Also, Mission Control would occasionally broadcast music to the astronauts (prompting Michael Collings to remark that he wished Houston would desist playing wakeup music while they wiped the sleep from their eyes and got organized.) This iMix comprises some of the songs taken by the astronauts, or radioed to them by Mission Control, on the nine Apollo missions to the moon.
