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Apollo 13 “problem”, 55 years ago at 11pm ET tonight.

Update on some of my work at NASA:.

ISS spacewalk currently underway. Suni Williams just surpassed Peggy Whitson's record for most spacewalk hours completed by a woman. Incredible. Meanwhile the press:

RT @NASAhistory: @BenFeist Incredible work, Ben! Thanks for sharing the story of your journey!.

This article tells the story of my first full-time year at NASA. Being given a chance to work at NASA on meaningful work was a dream come true. I hope you all enjoy it.

To be clear, these are not the main space-to-ground transcript, they are the mission control transcripts found here in the interface.

New stats:.4,803,618 utterances.42,684,618 words.224MB of text.

I've taken the 11,000 hours of Apollo 11 Mission Control audio recordings and have re-transcribed them using the latest Whisper "large-v3" via WhisperX. These new transcripts replace the existing "large-v2" transcripts and are now live on

The above is about the transcripts you can find here in the interface.

New stats:.3,936,510 utterances.37,503,659 words.199MB of text.

I've taken the 7200 hours of Apollo 13 Mission Control audio recordings and have re-transcribed them using the latest Whisper "large-v3" via WhisperX. These new transcripts replace the existing "large-v2" transcripts and are now live on

RT @NASA: Watch as our largest planetary spacecraft takes flight!. @EuropaClipper is targeted to launch at 12:06pm ET (1606 UTC) on a Falco….

RT @SpaceX: Watch Starship's fifth flight test

A long time in the making--today the new Netflix documentary, Apollo 13: Survival has been released. I'm proud to say that I and several of my collegues at helped with this film. It's all-archive akin to @apollo11movie.

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RT @NASAhistory: Liftoff!. #Apollo11 lifted off July 16, 1969, at 9:32 am EDT, setting off on its history-making journey to land humans on….

Like any good test of a system, it simultaneously served as a milestone of our team's achievements and a definition of new problems to solve on the road ahead. Giddy up!.

This Artemis test event was an excellent stress-test of the systems we're developing to assist the Artemis science and flight control teams.