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Ulli writes:
"The sketch shows Neil rescuing the one and only EVA Hasselblad magazine (Mag S, PN SEB 33100082-213 SN 417) used during the EVA."
From the Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Journal:
111:31:04 Armstrong: Uh oh! The camera came off. I mean the film pack came off. (Long Pause)
111:31:30 Aldrin: Okay. Just ease it down now. Don't pull so
hard on it. All right, let it go. (Pause)
[With the SRC (Sample Return Container or rockbox) up to the porch, Buzz asks Neil to ease the tension in the line so that the rock box will drop down enough to come through the hatch and into grabbing range.]
[Armstrong, from the 1969 Technical Debrief - "Concerning the LEC (Lunar Equipement Conveyor), I had neglected to lock one of the LEC hooks, which normally wouldn't have caused any trouble. You would expect to proceed normally whether that was locked or not. However, for some unknown reason, when I got the SRC about half way up, the Hasselblad pack just fell off. I can't account for that. I just took the pack on up and attached it, and ensured that it was locked when I put it on the SRC the second time. When it fell onto the surface, it was covered with surface material."]
[Aldrin, from the 1969 Technical Debrief - "I'm sure there is a lot of inertia with any package like that and, with that low gravity, it tends to swing back and forth; and if there is some tendency to reach an unlocked position, it will."]
111:31:46 Armstrong: While you're getting that (rock box out of the way), I've got to get this camera (actually, the film mag, which dropped at the foot of the ladder).
[Armstrong, from the 1969 Technical Debrief - "There was no problem (picking up the film magazine) because the ladder was right there. So I just leaned over and down to the ground and picked it up. I had the ladder to hold on to."]
111:33:53 Aldrin: Roger. How's it coming, Neil?
111:33:56 Armstrong: Okay. I've got one side hooked up to the second box and I've got the film pack on.
111:34:01 Aldrin: Okay. Good.
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Once back at the Photo Receiving Laboratory, Mag S was opened by photographic technician Terry Slezak. Due to contamination with lunar dust he was immediately placed in quarantine with Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin.
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