We all know how important archiving our work is — who knows when you might want to revisit or re-release something? But few audio engineers will ever face the archiving task that John Stoll took on: archiving all of the audio from the United States’ manned space flights — thousands of hours spanning more than five decades and numerous recording formats (some proprietary, some extinct). After seven years work, Stoll estimates he is 35% finished with the monumental task of preserving these historic recordings for future generations and making them available for researchers today.
Read more in this Mix Online story.
The NASA audio archives are here.
