Apollo Software

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(08-23-2016 09:17 AM)Don Shepherd Wrote:  Thanks Bob. It would be interesting if a future mission to the moon would bring back some of the artifacts from the Apollo missions that were left on the moon, especially to see how the daily lunar temperature extremes affected them. There must be some great Hasselblad cameras up there!

I've wondered about the exact same thing many times. Now that the STS missions are actually being planned, it seems that a mission to the Moon, to retrieve some artifacts, would be an ideal early mission to validate and tune the equipment, systems and software, but I've little doubt this would be cost-prohibitive. But as you say, some of those artifacts would be truly prized and valuable items.

And you can imagine the descriptions on eBay - "Hasselblad Video camera: Only used for 2 days, stored 50 years in a smoke-free environment." And "Vintage Guidance Computer: One of the earliest computers used for Lunar trajectory calculations. Some small dings and scratches, but appears to have genuine gold on the contacts and connectors. No power cord available so I can't test it, so being sold as-is."