Recorded at Honeysuckle Creek.

This recording of the Apollo 17 descent and lunar landing was made at Honeysuckle Creek and was preserved by Alan Foster.

Goldstone was tracking and so this was recorded from the Net 1 feed.

It begins as Challenger is at 57,000 feet.

Apollo 17 lunar landing – 7MB mp3

Touchdown is 10'32" into the recording.

The audio quality on this recording isn’t bad.

Free-to-air broadcast – not Honeysuckle audio.

Here’s audio of the Voice of America’s coverage of launch of Apollo 17, as recorded in Sydney by Colin Mackellar from HF radio (hence the poor quality). The Voice of America’s Rhett Turner anchored the coverage.

t-10:29 up until cutoff (at t-00:30.) – 4.2MB mp3

Near the start, Rhett Turner speaks about the last minute checks going on round the Manned Space Flight Network.

The recording ends shortly after the cutoff 30 seconds before launch, when the Automatic Sequence detected a problem.

t-6:02 to t+5:00 – 4.1MB mp3

This is the re-started countdown and launch.

(At some points, I had a better source of the audio – possibly ABC Radio – and switched to that.)