Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Anyone else watching these documentaries?

[OKCHunter]

Yep, it was ol' Neil. He had the still camera, so the only pictures you see of him on the moon are either captures from the movie cameras or reflections of him in Buzz's visor.

Somewhere I have a book called Full Moon (I think) that's full of Apollo photographs. When they got the film back, they processed the film and made duplicates of the negatives, then put the originals permanently in cold storage (where they remain to this day). That first set of duplicates was used to make further copies of the negatives, then they were put in cold storage; so all the photos you've seen of the Apollo missions (prior to this book) were at least third generation copies. For this book, NASA went back to those first-generation duplicates and commissioned a new set of negatives, which were then used to generate the imagery for this book.

It's a pretty cool story, and some way cool photography.

Interesting stuff - I did not know about the preserved negatives in cold storage. I’m glad there are some who are always thinking ahead to preserve history. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Snattlerake]

I'll wager they are stored here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strataca

https://www.undergroundvaults.com/

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[CorpsVet]

I've been watching as much as I can, any channel I can find something on. I didn't learn of Apollo 11 until days after it happened, I was "in the field" in Nam. Didn't get to see any of it until much later

 

[Snattlerake]

I've been watching as much as I can, any channel I can find something on. I didn't learn of Apollo 11 until days after it happened, I was "in the field" in Nam. Didn't get to see any of it until much later

Thanks for your service!!!
Semper Fi!

 

[CorpsVet]

I read about the moon landing in Stars and Stripes when I got to the rear about a week later

 

[Snattlerake]

As a side note, speaking of the salt mines in Hutch above, you all should go on a day trip to the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, KS. They have a planetarium, and a space museum.

They have an Redstone Mercury rocket and a Titan II Gemini rocket outside and an SR71 Indoors.

https://cosmo.org/?gclid=CjwKCAjw98...RwjHqUzSaHBBM7s1xmNjfK_uevQpKAGRoC1QEQAvD_BwE

LRV

Apollo Soyuz

Apollo 13 capsule

 

[Snattlerake]

I read about the moon landing in Stars and Stripes when I got to the rear about a week later

I'd really like to know what your thoughts and feelings were after reading that article.

 

[CorpsVet]

I'd really like to know what your thoughts and feelings were after reading that article.

I honestly don't recall, it was 50 years ago

 

[dennishoddy]

I'll wager they are stored here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strataca

https://www.undergroundvaults.com/

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I don’t doubt they are stored there. A cousin that owns a printing company with a contract for McConnell AFB stores his paper there.
He took me through it several years ago. Hollywood stores vintage film in one part, but there is also a government restricted area that is sealed.
Lots of mushrooms grown there too when we toured.

 

[Snattlerake]

Every time I watch this 8 Days to the Moon re-enacted movie I see something different

Right before Armstrong said, "Houston, Tranquility base here, the Eagle has landed." he said, "413 is in." It took a bit but I found it was referring to the computer input to memory to input the exact attitude of the Eagle on the moon. This input was in case of an emergency abort being necessary.

I also realize common sense tells you they have to depressurize the LM in order to get out of it. What i want to know is do they waste the atmosphere to the moon by venting or do they pull a vacuum inside. We all know from science classes we cannot pull a complete vacuum. I would imagine to save as much breathable O2 as possible they would pull as much as they could then vent the rest to gain equilibrium. Just guessing here.