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Price Realised GBP 2,500
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The American flag on the Moon; unintended photograph of Armstrong’s Portable Life Support System (PLSS), July 16-24, 1969
Buzz Aldrin [Apollo 11]
Price Realised GBP 2,500
Price Realised GBP 2,500
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This accidental exposure (originally shot on color film) was probably taken when Aldrin got the camera either from Armstrong or off the MESA (Modularized Equipment Stowage Assembly) at the LM.
It shows a blurry spacesuit picture of Armstrong’s PLSS but creates a good picture of
the Hasselblad camera’s reseau matrix.
On the lunar surface, all the Apollo astronauts took photographs using a 500 EL Hasselblad Data Camera equipped with a transparent glass reseau plate engraved with grid markings and specially designed lenses and Kodak films. Crosses on each picture enabled geologists to make photogrammetric measurements of all objects recorded.
“There is no doubt that having the mount frees you to operate with both hands on other tasks. The handle is adequate to perform the job of pointing the camera. I don’t think we took as many inadvertent pictures as some preflight simulations would have indicated. It seems as though, in all the simulations where we picked up the camera, we always managed to take (unintended) pictures. I don’t think that was the case in this mission as much as we thought it was going to be. We’ll know if a number of pictures taken are pointed at odd angles,” said later Aldrin (1969 Technical Debrief, from the ALSJ mission transcript at 110:31:47 GET).
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This beautiful photograph of the US flag, a frame from the panoramic sequence shot by Buzz Aldrin from the position north of the LM, was surprisingly not in the selection released for publication by NASA’s Public Affairs Office immediately after the mission and doesn’t appear in newspapers or magazines of the time.
Armstrong’s shadow appears between the shadow of the Solar Wind Collector in the foreground and the shadow of the LM in the background.
From the mission transcript during the lunar phone call with President Nixon:
110:17:44 Neil Armstrong: It’s a great honor and privilege for us to be here, representing not only the United States, but men of peace of all nations. Men with interest and vision for the future. Men with interest and vision for the future.
This accidental exposure (originally shot on color film) was probably taken when Aldrin got the camera either from Armstrong or off the MESA (Modularized Equipment Stowage Assembly) at the LM.
It shows a blurry spacesuit picture of Armstrong’s PLSS but creates a good picture of
the Hasselblad camera’s reseau matrix.
On the lunar surface, all the Apollo astronauts took photographs using a 500 EL Hasselblad Data Camera equipped with a transparent glass reseau plate engraved with grid markings and specially designed lenses and Kodak films. Crosses on each picture enabled geologists to make photogrammetric measurements of all objects recorded.
“There is no doubt that having the mount frees you to operate with both hands on other tasks. The handle is adequate to perform the job of pointing the camera. I don’t think we took as many inadvertent pictures as some preflight simulations would have indicated. It seems as though, in all the simulations where we picked up the camera, we always managed to take (unintended) pictures. I don’t think that was the case in this mission as much as we thought it was going to be. We’ll know if a number of pictures taken are pointed at odd angles,” said later Aldrin (1969 Technical Debrief, from the ALSJ mission transcript at 110:31:47 GET).
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This beautiful photograph of the US flag, a frame from the panoramic sequence shot by Buzz Aldrin from the position north of the LM, was surprisingly not in the selection released for publication by NASA’s Public Affairs Office immediately after the mission and doesn’t appear in newspapers or magazines of the time.
Armstrong’s shadow appears between the shadow of the Solar Wind Collector in the foreground and the shadow of the LM in the background.
From the mission transcript during the lunar phone call with President Nixon:
110:17:44 Neil Armstrong: It’s a great honor and privilege for us to be here, representing not only the United States, but men of peace of all nations. Men with interest and vision for the future. Men with interest and vision for the future.
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Buzz Aldrin [Apollo 11]
The American flag on the Moon; unintended photograph of Armstrong’s Portable Life Support System (PLSS), July 16-24, 1969
Estimate: GBP 1,500 - 2,500
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