NASA ringtones for your Windows Phone

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NASA has released a collection of free sound files from its historical archives for use by space buffs as ringtones.

Now thanks to HelpSoftware they are also available for your Windows Phone 7.5 Mango edition!

The set includes sound clips from historic Apollo and Mercury missions, Sputnik’s “beep beep beep”, shuttle launch audio and more.

“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.”

You can hear the roar of a space shuttle launch or Neil Armstrong’s ”

One small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind” every time you get a phone call.

Or, you can hear the memorable words “Houston, we’ve had a problem,” every time you receive a phone call.

The the app cost 0.99 euros with a free trial and can be found in Marketplace here.

Update:  New in version 1.2

  •  In Trial mode you can listen to the full sound collection
  •  Added the missing Houston we have a problem ringtone

What’s next?

We will continue to improve and add more features to this incredible collection.

We will also add more sounds from outer space 🙂 Thanks for your support and your ratings