How many Hasselblad's are on the Moon?

[Sirius Glass]

I always laugh when a television show has people talking about the permanently dark side of the Moon.

Steve

 

[BrianShaw]

It's almost as dangerous as a 2nd Lieutenant with a map.

LOL. You are quite right. (More right than am I.)

Although... lately I've seem more navigational lunacy happen with a GPS!

 

[Photo Engineer]

I take umbrage at that!

I was very good with a compass and a map.

Capt. PE USAF Res RET

 

[jacarape]

Yea, magnetic declination is pretty easy when it means food at the other end of a hike.

Let me take a chance to say YEA GO NASA on the orbital insertion of Messenger around Mercury. Modern history as we watch, again.

 

[Photo Engineer]

Yes, the NASA web site is one of my favorites with all of the missions highlighted on their own pages. Great stuff.

PE

 

[lxdude]

I always laugh when a television show has people talking about the permanently dark side of the Moon.
Steve

Unless they're talking about Walrath's massive orb.
"Where the sun don't shine", indeed.

 

[BrianShaw]

I take umbrage at that!

I was very good with a compass and a map.

Capt. PE USAF Res RET

Please retract your unbrage. I was specific about that being an Army phenomenon. (Wasn't I? If not, that's what I meant.) In my multi-service experience I've found aviators (including USAF) and sailors to be quite good at nav.

 

[Photo Engineer]

thanks. I knew quite a few Army people who were very good with the compass as well. They were all former Boy Scouts!

 

[vpwphoto]

I talked to Gene Cernan last night... He said the new lunar mapping satellite images WILL SHOW.... that he left the lunar car parked with the front wheel cranked left and his daughters initials written in the lunar powder by the front wheel. He says an image is posted that shows the car and you can indeed see the wheels are cocked left.... I didn't have time to ask him where he left the Hasselblad surveying body before he took the 70mm film back off.


This is cool... Mr. Cernan must have seen a yet higher res print but here it is... he says one day they will be able to see his doodles in the sand an footprints. I didn't realize he was on the moon for 72 hours... that is a while.
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/397621main_ap17_1st50km_4release.jpg

 

[Photo Engineer]

There is a higher res picture somewhere on the NASA site. I saw it a few weeks ago. You can see the footprints and some smaller items.

PE

 

[Vanishing Point Ent.]

How many Hasselblad's are on the Moon ? Try Ask.com

According to www.Ask.com
http://www.ask.com/web?q=How+many+Hasselblad's+are+on+the+Moon+?&search=&qsrc=0&o=0&l=dir

Then there's this;
There are 12 Hasselblad Cameras on the Surface
of the Moon.

http://www.petapixel.com/2011/06/15/there-are-12-hasselblad-cameras-on-the-surface-of-the-moon/

Did you know that there are 12 Hasselblad
cameras currently sitting on the surface of the
moon ? The cameras that shot those iconic images
of the moon’s surface between 1969 and 1972 were
left there to allow for the 25kg of lunar rock samples
that were brought back instead.

Only the film magazines were brought back.

I wonder why ? Surely they could have been
unloaded in the Lunar Module, so the cameras
could have been left on the moon complete,
hopefully for some future collector to find.

 

[MattCarey]

The dark side of the moon is not dark.

PE

The dark side of the moon us dark, it just isnt the same side of the moon all the time. It also varies in level of darkness from starshine to earthshine.

 

[MattCarey]

PE... with all the dangers and ounce by ounce calculations I am surprised at how much contraband made it into the capsules.
I always wondered about the golf ball... I have a feeling mission control "sh#t" when that came out on the moon.
Armstrong is such the pilot's pilot and engineer's engineer, I bet he little tolerance for such highjinx on his missions.

Astronauts had a quota of weight for personal items. There is a story about how the crew of the lunar lander hid photos of their families on the base.

 

[MattCarey]

That is some cool info Mr. Photo Engineer. Never thought about volatiles evaporating in the vacuum.
I always wondered about the Gamma radiation fogging the film... was there lead linings on the Blads?

I talked with David Wolf (shuttle man), he spoke about how much radiation he received daily on the space station.
Wolf said that in the Russian part of the station some of the windows are not lead glass and your hair will burn right off your arm when the sun shines directly through.

I've heard pinky Nelson talk about the radiation in space. He says when you close your eyes to sleep you occasionally see flashes as radiation interacts with your eye akin to a cloud chamber

 

[Athiril]

I just noticed in Michael's here in Melbourne, they have a Hasselblad Space Camera in a glass case.

 

[pen s]

Cameras were not the only thing dumped before return. They would get back in the LM, hook up to LM life support, then dump their PLSS back packs. Close the hatch and repressurize the compartment. I would think that by now the cameras would have picked up a static charge and been covered with dust.

 

[jvo]

I still have my last set of white room garb, booties and hat!

PE

halloween next week!

 

[Photo Engineer]

And I don't need to wear a mask!

PE

 

[Sirius Glass]

halloween next week!

Maybe PE will repost the Halloween Pumpkin Portrait.

 

[vpwphoto]

Cameras were not the only thing dumped before return. They would get back in the LM, hook up to LM life support, then dump their PLSS back packs. Close the hatch and repressurize the compartment. I would think that by now the cameras would have picked up a static charge and been covered with dust.

THis is as bad as a moon landing denyer. THERE IS NO wind to move dust... the meteror crators and all are Billions of years old and intact because things only move on the moon when something crashes into it. Sure a little dust will eventually settle on things... but why post crazy stuff.

I quit this one-upmanship game.... I don't see any women one-uping other folks reasonable comments.

 

[BrianL]

Selling them on eBay would be a deal. Some flipper will flood the market by offering all of them at one time and the value will drop like a rock. Postage will not be an isue as the seller will only offer pickup is the responsibility of the buyer. He may offer a deal through Mr. Richard Branson to get a ride to pickup.

 

[vpwphoto]

I wonder why ? Surely they could have been
unloaded in the Lunar Module, so the cameras
could have been left on the moon complete,
hopefully for some future collector to find.

The astronauts had enough to worry about rather than fogging the most important films in the history of the world to that date... oh... so there would be a "complete" camera on the moon... ahhhhhhhh nuts.

So folks here at APUG are better engineers typing at home than the single greatest TEAM of engineers and technicians assembled to this day?!?! The "pilots" had sooooo many things to do to land and return from the moon, the checklists were a mile long... and those backs were loaded in a clean room with ultra thin base film.

The lunar module was full of dust after re-pressurazation one of the men said it smelled like charcole dust.

 

[tomalophicon]

THis is as bad as a moon landing denyer. THERE IS NO wind to move dust... the meteror crators and all are Billions of years old and intact because things only move on the moon when something crashes into it. Sure a little dust will eventually settle on things... but why post crazy stuff.

I quit this one-upmanship game.... I don't see any women one-uping other folks reasonable comments.

What about space dust?

 

[vpwphoto]

Selling them on eBay would be a deal. Some flipper will flood the market by offering all of them at one time and the value will drop like a rock. Postage will not be an isue as the seller will only offer pickup is the responsibility of the buyer. He may offer a deal through Mr. Richard Branson to get a ride to pickup.

I talked with Jerry Ross (look him up) in 1992 about a robot returning one to Earth for sale to fund the space program... it would have to sell for Billlions to make it worth any trouble at all. Someday perhaps one will be brough back but I doubt it.

 

[vpwphoto]

What about space dust?

Again look at those Billions year old craters and such... the dust is absolutely negligible.