Many of the photos from the early days of Cape Canaveral have vanished. The University of Central Florida has a project to recover as much as possible, but there is a mystery attached to the vanished originals. There is also a west coast version of this project.
Originals, generated by the USAF, were sent every month by special courier to the archives at Wright Patterson AFB, but seem to have vanished from the archives there. It was probably an overwhelming task to keep track of them and in a fit of 'economy' they were just destroyed.
To get back to the space shots, color film was tested by EK in a vacuum to see if the extreme environment would affect the plasticisers and solvents in film. The film was coated on special thin support so that more film could be wound on one roll. It turns out though that the solvents and plasticizers were not unduly affected by the short exposure to vacuum and extremes in temperature.
A variety of films were shot on every mission, not just one film. I have seen pictures taken with ECN and printed on color paper with good results. Most all transparencies had internegatives made and were then printed on color paper. Kodak did some of the duplication and processing for both the USAF and NASA.
Currently, NASA publishes digital photos on their web site at launch time.
Since I was once responsible for the shipment of materials to WPAFB, I have been contacted by Dr. Walters of the U of CF project and also a member of the west coast project to assist them in trying to recover any of the original photos. I have been of little help, but have worked with them to collect names, places and dates as far as I can remember.
PE