With more than 300 hours of audio, 22 hours of video, and 4,000 photos, a Toronto man’s hobby website dedicated to recreating the last mission to the moon in real time has landed him a dream job at NASA.
While other people come home from work to relax, Ben Feist would leave his job at an advertising agency at the end of the day to sift through hours of audio recordings, videos, and transcripts from the Apollo 17 mission to the moon in 1972.
"The historical record of Apollo 17… wasn’t very well documented because they weren’t going back anytime soon so when they were doing the packaging up of the mission at the end of it, they didn’t put the same amount of effort in that as they did for the previous missions,” he explained to CTV’s Your Morning on Wednesday.
“It was pretty amazing,” Feist recalled. “I thought what a great end to all of this. I can put the cherry on the cake and go tell them about what I’m doing and move on and do something else.”“They said ‘We think you may have inadvertently solved a problem that NASA has been trying to solve for a very long time and that’s how to organize our space flight data so that it can be easily navigated,’” Feist said.
Feist was given a series of projects to work on before he was offered a full-time position at the famed space agency. Now, he’s been officially working at NASA for approximately two years.
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