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The weight of the camera, with 80 mm lens and 2 batteries, without film magazine, is 4.04 pounds. Source history.nasa.gov...
The Mauer cameras weighed 2.8 pounds each, with a 140-foot film magazine attached. Source www.lpi.usra.edu...
Law says Apollo astronauts can keep, sell artifacts
NASA challenged the auction of this piece of space program history… (Handout, Heritage Auctions )
6:08 p.m. EST, September 27, 2012|By Mark K. Matthews, Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama ended a months-long fight over NASA relics this week when he signed into law a bill that confers full ownership of early NASA artifacts to the astronauts that took them as souvenirs.
The legislation follows a public -- and sometimes bitter -- battle between NASA and its astronaut corps over the sale of keepsakes from the agency's earliest days, most notably the nearly $390,000 auction of a systems checklist from the infamous Apollo 13 mission. Source articles.orlandosentinel.com...
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
On the lunar surface the camera weight is less than 1 pound - but NASA ordered the astronauts to dumped the cameras out on the lunar surface due to weight considerations.
Originally posted by jra
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
On the lunar surface the camera weight is less than 1 pound - but NASA ordered the astronauts to dumped the cameras out on the lunar surface due to weight considerations.
Their weight on the Moon is irrelevant. Their mass is still 4lbs regardless if they are on the Moon or in 0G. And they left more than just the camera's behind for weight savings, but that's getting off the topic of this thread.
edit on 29-9-2012 by jra because: typo
Originally posted by SayonaraJupiter
The topic of the thread is Hasselblads On The Moon how can it be getting off topic?
Do you know the official NASA explanation for why the Hasselblads were left on the surface of the moon? Well?