Eva-Tone Soundsheet: Sounds of the Space Age (From Sputnik to Lunar Landing)

This day in 1969, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin "Buzz" Aldron, Jr. went on the Apollo 11 spaceflight and made the first successful lunar landing in history. National Geographic explained the history of space travelling VERY well on this little flexi-disc...

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[ThisGuyFrritz]

There's also "The Sounds of Whales" and one other flexi-disc that were in National Geographic Magazines. I think it would be a good idea if some collection of these recordings would be reissued.

[OldMusicOnVinyl1]

@ThisGuyFrritz That one other National Geographic flexi was about the death of Sir Winston Churchill. Have you ever seen that one?

[vinyl12s]

Nice collectors piece..Yeah the top brass in the US was steaming when Sputnik was circling the globe.

[OldMusicOnVinyl1]

@vinyl12s Yes, that kind of "constructive" rivalry is missing nowadays. Along the same lines, we often reminisce fondly here about the Canada-Russia hockey series, especially about how it spurred such passion for the sport at the time. People still enjoy talking about it today. That international meet-up was very revolutionary for its day... now it's so commonplace.

[SlimeAmTheBest]

They're playing us. XD

[OldMusicOnVinyl1]

@SlimeAmTheBest LOL... Now I feel the urge to watch Capricorn 1. :P

[krishner]

I have the National Geogpraphic magazine with this flexi-disc still attached and unplayed in it. Its December 1969. Its great to actually hear the record as I've been keeping it safe and intact...thx OldMusicOnVinyl1!!

[TheGangsterPetre]

That sounds scarry me out of here

[EmmetEarwax]

I have the Winston Churchill funeral, the space program, the whale record, many music adverts for albums, and even an advert for Radiola Radio-Yesteryear (good recording but company run by robbers !),I even have a Mr.Bill story (red soundsheet) and Neil Cassidy of the Grateful Dead raps (app. on drugs), and a 12-sided album of bird songs (soundsheets bound like a book . To select side you want just turn the pages.)

[m2esectr]

At the beginning, the narrator correctly deciphers Armstrong's historic words as "It's one small step for *A* man". Having first heard it on my copy of this record, I wasn't aware that the official transcript omitted the "a" until I heard the news that someone had examined the recording and found that it was actually there!

[cbfall]

Very cool and interesting flexi-disc record!

[ThisGuyFrritz]

@OldMusicOnVinyl1 No, haven't seen that one on Winston Churchill.

[metalshadowmario4]

HA! I have this thing at my house!

They had a bunch of National Geographics at school, and I was looking into one with the subject Apollo 11, and since my science teacher knows I'm interested in vinyl, she gave it to me.