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Original 70 mm Hasselblad color film positive from the Apollo 12 mission, 2.75˝ x 2.5˝, which pictures LMP Alan Bean unloading the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package (ALSEP) from the Lunar Module Intrepid during the first EVA of the Apollo 12 mission. Deriving from the personal collection of NASA technician Richard Underwood, who worked in the Johnson Space Center’s Photographic Technology Laboratory for over two decades, this early-generation, hand-numbered frame, which was copied from the film that went to the moon, was used in preparation for later generation, machine-numbered film strips for photograph production, including the famed red-numbered versions. The left border is annotated, "AS12-46-6786," indicating that the photograph was from Mission 12, Magazine 46Y. In fine condition.
Accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity from Sandy Clarkson of The Right Stuff Space, who attests that this film frame derives from the collection of Richard Underwood, who was responsible for developing the Apollo photographs—in fact, he was the first person to view every photograph from the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz, and the first 23 space shuttle missions.
