Sol One

Welcome to the Sol One Podcast. Let me just explain what this is all about first. I was employed at The Audio Development Laboratory in Houston, Texas that consisted of acoustic test facilities and supporting equipment for testing and development of audio communications and elector-acoustic systems and equipment.Our main contractor was NASA and I had high clearance into working with and developing their audio equipment that they use with astronauts in space and on the International Space Station. I often worked alone and late into the evening. There was a lot of security, but very few NASA employees that late at night. On one such evening I was asked to listen to an audio file recorded by a physicists monitoring incoming signals from the University of Berkley's Radio Astronomy Laboratory.He pulled me into a room and placed headphones onto my ears. Listen, he said. Tell me what you think. What you will hear is impossible. We have no one on Mars. No one. He kept repeating this. I listened to a few of his record