200px NASA logoNASA has released a collection of free sound files from its historical archives for use by space buffs as ringtones. The set includes sound clips from historic Apollo and Mercury missions, Sputnik's "beep beep beep", shuttle launch audio and more:

- Apollo 13's John "Jack" Swigert commenting "Houston, we have a problem"
- Crackle of the historic last launch of the space shuttle, STS-135
- Segments from President John F. Kennedy's historic moon speech
- Sound wave conversions of the light curve waves created by stars
discovered by NASA's Kepler mission and other sounds of planets and
stars

"NASA has been making historic sounds for over 50 years," said Jerry Colen, NASA App project manager at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. "Now we're making some of these memorable sounds easy to find and use."

The website includes both MP3 and iPhone native M4R formats, plus easy-to-follow instructions for installing the ringtones on the iPhone.

Top Rated Comments

accessoriesguy Avatar
157 months ago
why is everything NASA does so cool!!!
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Mac American Avatar
157 months ago
NASA should sell them, a new way to fun the space program!
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enklined Avatar
157 months ago
Good to see NASA put those lazy laid-off astronauts back to work to create iPhone ringtones.

In all seriousness - pretty cool. Downloaded all of them.
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