Fearless Steps: In the NEWS!

1. UTD Today
Published: December 5, 2017

"NASA recorded thousands of hours of audio from the Apollo lunar missions, yet most of us have only been able to hear the highlights...Imagine Apple's Siri trying to transcribe discussions amid random interruptions..."

2. Dallas Innovates
Published: December 7, 2017

'CRSS has made significant advancements in machine learning and knowledge extraction to assess human interaction for one of the most challenging engineering tasks in the history of mankind.' ~ John H.L. Hansen

3. National Science Foundation
Published: December 7, 2017

University of Texas (UT) at Dallas researchers develop speech-processing techniques to reconstruct NASA lunar mission audio from a massive archive. The team developed algorithms to process, recognize and analyze the audio to determine who said what and when in an advance in diarization research...

4. Kera News
Published: December 20, 2017

Images from the moon landing and other major space moments of the 1960s are familiar to many Americans. But what about the sounds?

5. Dmagazine
Published: December 21, 2017

Some of it you’ll recognize (“one small step for man”) and some of it you won’t: many of the tapes have “sat unheard in storage for decades,” and cover some of the less glamorous discussions amongst egghead engineers and rocket scientists...

6. collectSpace
Published: January 5, 2018

Almost 50 years after the first humans launched to the moon, researchers in Dallas have taken a new look at NASA's Apollo missions. Or more appropriately, a new listen...

7. Houston Public Media
Published: January 30, 2018

Dr. John Hansen and his team of researchers from UT-Dallas pored through countless hours of tapes from NASA’s archives with much more than preserving history in mind...

8. Texas Country Reporter
Published: May 31, 2019

9. NASA
Published: July 24, 2018

10. NASA
Published: August 25, 2018

The tapes capture the dramatic moments just before the moon landing, but also some lighthearted episodes...

11. Discover Magazine
Published: October 29, 2018

For decades, most of these tapes sat in storage. Only a fraction of the audio — like Armstrong’s famous first words from the moon — were ever released to the public. But now a years-long project to digitize and process the audio from the tapes has given this historic record new life...

12. Vanity Fair
Published: December 9, 2018

...freshly unearthed footage of the 1969 lunar mission, with the help of a community of space nerds, will tell the story of the historic event in a new way, making the film as much a cinematic discovery as a celestial one.

13. NASA Heroes behind the Heroes
Published: December 5, 2017
This is a 4 part Podcast.

14. FOX News
Published: July 19, 2019

A team at the University of Texas at Dallas spent years digitizing old tapes of the conversations between mission control and the Apollo 11 astronauts.Learn More...

15. Dallas Morning News
Published: December 5, 2017

What NASA’s soundscriber would have taken 172 years to accomplish, Hansen’s rebuild did in only five!