Finding Gene Cernan's Missing Moon Camera

(spacecamera.co)

51 points | by theodorespeaks 4 days ago ago

5 comments

  • harywilke 24 minutes ago

    "About Cole Rise

    Cole Rise is a photographer, entrepreneur, pilot, and space camera maker. He’s the designer of the original Instagram icon and filters and has shot for brands and tourism boards around the world. Obsessed with space and the cameras we sent to the moon, Cole has spent the last six years building a custom workshop for rebuilding the cameras that traveled with us on our greatest journeys, from Mercury to the Shuttle, using many of the same tools and materials available in those time periods."

  • somat 2 hours ago

    Some of those Apollo 17 photos are especially epic, did he fall over? I have heard that the moon dust is electrostaticly charged and sticks to everything, but it is all over him, and those selfies. He looks terrible, exactly like I would expect someone to look with 12 days, no shower, in a vehicle the size of a cargo van with 2 other dudes, after grubbing around in electrostatic dust. Salutes

    • kencausey 36 minutes ago

      My understanding is that there is a lot of very fine lunar dust and in the lower gravity even a small amount of static electricity on you means that you are quickly covered in the dust.

  • rolandog 3 hours ago

    What a great and interesting read. Thanks for sharing it here!

  • NaOH 2 hours ago

    (2020)