NASA officials learned last March that a British auction sale house had an particular judge “ Movie Camera from the Lunar Surface ” as part of their Space History Sale . The photographic camera was described in the catalog as being one of two used aboard Apollo 14 ’s lunar faculty , Antares , and had come straight from the collection of astronaut Edgar Mitchell ( picture , right , with fellow Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard , center , and Stuart Allen Roosa , left ) , whose epitaph will most likely begin with the phrasal idiom , “ Sixth man to take the air on the moon . ” Estimated value : $ 60 to $ 80k . Now the U.S. government is suing to get that tv camera back .
file in Miami Union court today , the case accuses Mitchell of “ illegally possess the camera and attempt to trade it for profit . ” Mitchell maintains the camera was present to him by NASA after his 1971 outer space walk . “ Objects from the lunar trips to the moon were ultimately mounted and then presented to the spaceman as a gift after they had helped NASA on a commission , ” his attorney said .
I do n’t have it off who to believe — but I do fuck that the conception of a crack squad of cosmonaut thief , run around hotwiring Space Shuttles and Mars Rovers , is the best movie franchise approximation I ’ve hear since The Fast and the Furious . Get cracking , Hollywood ! [ Reuters , photo via Getty ]
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