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When the Apollo astronauts were out of radio contact with the ground, they had a tape recorder inside their spacecraft that recorded their private, unguarded conversations. These transcripts were classified until the late 1970s because they included detailed information about Apollo operations


Apollo onboard voice recordings captured the moon astronauts’ conversations when no one else was listening.

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