posted 03-29-2023 09:55 AM               

I'd previously thought all film used during Apollo missions was 70mm (Hasselblads) or 16mm (for Maurer camera) so was a bit puzzled.

Had not known of the Kodak-made lunar surface stereo camera which was based around a 35mm film format. Also covered here.

Eugene Edmonds who attested to the Apollo 11 source certainly checks out. Presumably the auction item film fragment could be from said stereo camera, but any other possible explanation for 35mm?

More broadly, I gather film fragments like this (assuming it is genuine and as described) are not subject to the same NASA retention/ownership restriction as lunar dust and the like?

posted 04-07-2023 07:58 PM               

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Originally posted by David Carey:
...are not subject to the same NASA retention/ownership restriction as lunar dust and the like?

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That said, an OIG agent once told me that if the item in question was originally destined for the trash and if it was not made of metal, then the office would not likely pursue its return. (The difference with metal is that NASA could, in theory, receive a recycling fee.)