Apollo Astronaut on the Moon

[Paper Kosmonaut]

Great pictures, Billy!

[kenlwest]

Billy,

The pictures look really good!

Do you still plan on building Buzz?? to complete the scene?

Ken

[billy.leliveld]

Yes, I already started, but part of him is still in cyber-space

[nando]

In my endless research on internet I found this manual.



It isn't about the use of the Hasselblad during the Apollo era, but the Shuttle era, and You can see the technic progress that there was been in the years. The technics suggested in the manual are pertinent to the space environment, and the Apollo experience was, maybe, useful.

Best, Nando

[nando]

Hi Ken and Billy.
You did a fantastic work with the Armstrong and Aldrin reproductions.
Ken you have to be very proud for the interest of Aldrin and Billy Your models at the exposition are fantastic and I regret that the Holland is so far from my country.
I bought the model (another in the to-do-list) and i couldn't resist to build the left glove.
Here some photo of the result, not so bad i think, but not so easy for me and I could appreciate your ability, Ken, in the design of a such complex object, and what a result!

I compared the glove with the real one, and You can see the portrait of the left glove of Aldrin that i took from the pages of "Moonfire" book. OMG Ken! You forgot the check list for the lunar surface EVA!

It's a joke, Your work it's fantastic. But I think that I'll have some problem at home for the final dimensions, and I think that reduce to half makes more and more difficult to build the gloves, for example.
I'll see what i can do. In the mean time I'll be far from the forum and from our hobby for a surgery.

See you, Nando

[kenlwest]

Nando,

The glove looks great! Are you going to build them 1/2 scale? If so, just use regular paper (not thick 110 lb), and it will build just fine.

Surgery? Nothing serious I hope.... Let us know when you are back.

Ken

[billy.leliveld]

He Nando, that glove looks great (I cheated, and made the fingertips from balsa-wood), but I didn't forgot Neil's shopping list ( actually it's Buzz's list)
I took the picture posted earlier and scaled it down, the text becomes unreadable, bit it's there.

[nando]

Originally Posted by kenlwest

Surgery? Nothing serious I hope.... Let us know when you are back.

Ken

The problem is not serious but the surgery is necessary. The surgical intervention is not important but tedious and will require a bit of recovery. So I will be away for a while.

See you, soon I hope.

PS: Billy, I had no doubt that you would put the list on your model

[airdave]

Thread bump!

Since the Hasselblads were such an integral part of this discussion,
I thought you might like this recent story...

[DigitalTrends.com article by Les Shu]
So, how much is a camera that’s gone into space worth?
If it’s this particular Hasselblad 500, it’ll set you back 660,000 Euro, or around $910,000.
That’s how much Terukazu Fujisawa, founder of the Yodobashi Camera retail chain in Japan, paid
during the respectable WestLicht auction house’s 25th camera auction, held on March 21-22 in Austria.
Plenty of cameras have gone into orbit and back, but what makes this particular unit unique
is that it is the camera used by astronaut Jim Irwin, who was the Lunar Module pilot for Apollo 15, NASA’s fourth moon landing.
That means the camera not only went into space, but all the way to the moon. Or, did it?
When WestLicht announced in February that it had secured the camera for auction, it said that it’s the only one of 14 cameras
that made it back to Earth, with the remaining 13 being abandoned on the moon.
WestLicht also claims that it’s the only camera to have ever returned from the moon,
which Irwin used to shoot about 299 photos during the mission.
But the claims were immediately questioned. As Pop Photo points out, Kishore Sawh of SLRLounge said two other cameras have gone to the moon and back,
which disputes the WestLicht claim that it has the only camera to ever do so.
Meanwhile, CollectSpace pondered if Camera No. 1038, the Irwin camera being auctioned, ever touched down on the moon at all.
Based on the serial numbers, it seems the WestLicht camera had gone to auction before, in November 2012, at the RR Auction in New Hampshire; the camera was sold for $42,704.
But that camera was described as having been in a lunar orbit during an Apollo mission, with no claim of it being used by Irwin on the moon.
Nonetheless, despite the controversy, the camera received a winning bid that’s much higher than WestLicht’s estimate of 200,000 Euro (the bidding started at 80,000 Euro).
In a press release, WestLicht said that it was an extremely close bidding war.
No one is denying that the camera went into space, and we doubt WestLicht, which has been auctioning rare cameras for some time, would make up claims out of thin air.
But the disputes of its authenticity weren’t enough to deter Fujisawa and others to bid big money on it, obviously.
(Via Pop Photo; images via WestLicht)

[dhanners]

I would wonder why NASA/the U.S. government is letting these things go. I know the government sells surplus from time to time, but this stuff is history, not surplus. Then again, if NASA is hard up for money....