Quindar on Science Friday w/Ira Flatow October 27, 2018 mikael jorgensen See this content in the original post Quindar may not be a familiar word, but as a sound, it’s instantly recognizable. During the Apollo space missions, the quindar tones were the bleeps made by the transmitters connecting the spacecraft to ground control. Quindar is also the name of the collaboration between Wilco keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen and art historian/musician James Merle Thomas. The duo talks about how they took inspiration from sounds in the NASA archive to tell the smaller, human stories of the space program.