Seventy-Five (ft NASA)
By ineff on June 5, 2022 7:02 am
This week's track is a monowave-driven space rave, featuring public domain mission audio from the 1996 NASA shuttle mission STS-75!
I picked it for the number, but STS-75 turns out to have been pretty interesting―the first use of a Linux kernel in orbit, the loss of a tethered satellite (tether broke), two astronauts velcroing a mezuzah to their bunkbed, and the citation of its (as-yet-unused) mission number in a hoaxed internet sex document posted to usenet seven years earlier (1989).
The video of the broken tether and resulting space debris makes STS-75 a favorite "proof" of internet UFO enthusiasts, and details from the sex hoax get regurgitated every so often by gullible authors and periodicals. Somehow, these fringe narratives have remained independent of each other so far.
Maybe in the future, someone will use this track as evidence that the STS-75 CapCom staged a quindar-beeping space rave in 1996―possibly in connection to one or more of the mission's existing myths.
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Huge sounds, feel like I'm in an alternate reality future 90s scenario (this is a good thing).
