Thursday, December 15, 2011

How many/much photos, film and video was shot during the Apollo program?

In the course of the 11 manned missions of the Apollo program (7-11), how many photos were taken in flight or on the moon? How much video was recorded (in minutes/hours)? And how much motion picture film (the 16mm DAC camera) was shot? I can't find these numbers anywhere. Much thanks!|||Lots. NASA its may not know the total either. But here's everything that the Apollo lunar lander missions did -


http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Histor鈥?/a>





For the movies at least, you would need to know the frame rate (some footage was shot under cranked or stop motion). Some photos may of been lost (film cartridge dropped on the moon and left behind). Also there were reconnaissance photos taken by some of the Apollo lunar capsules as they orbited around the moon.





So lots, thousands, if you fold in the movie and video frames.|||Probably alot. I heard the first moon landing took three takes. lol

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