The three images of the lunar surface look poorer quality than the ones on the 24th, but I don’t know if that is due to the quality of the image coming from off planet. I wish the images were bigger. The writing on the back is the same style an engineer or architect would use with all capitalized lettering. For instance, JULY with J being bigger than the ULY, but still all capitalized.

I actually came across this site because it was the only one I found that mentioned polaroids of apollo 11 mission.

        Thomas said:

So where would I send the photos? They are very nice polaroid.

Hi Thomas. Do you know anything about the history of these photos? How did you acquire them?

The ones from July 24 are not of interest to me. These are just photos of the portions of the mission that are not the subject of the apollo lunar surface camera.

The three you have from the 20th, do you know if these were taken from an SSTV monitor?

July 24, 1969:
Apollo 11 Splash Down Command Module
Apollo 11 Astronauts coming out of helicopter into isolation trailer
Apollo 11 Splashdown Command Module
Apollo 11 Helicopter Bringing the Three Astronauts in after splashdown
Apollo 11 splashdown three astronausts collins, armstrong & aldrian
Apollo 11 splashdown command module
Apollo 11 splashdown command module
Apollo 11 splashdown command module
Apollo 11 control after a successful splashdown
apollo 11 astronauts aldrian, armstrong, & collins in isolation talking with president nixon
apollo 11 three astronauts talking with president after splashdown
Apollo 11 President Nixon Talking with three astronauts. Astronauts in isolation.

July 20, 1969
Armstron on Moon right after 1st step. “there’s one small step for man & one giant leap for mankind”
Astronauts armstrong & Aldrin reading plaque dedicated to moon landing
Astronauts armstrong & aldrin raising american flag on moon in front of th LM.

Each picture is roughly 3.25 ” wide by 2.5″ high.

        steve n said:

I have 4 or 5 Apollo 11 polaroid pictures that look as if they could have been taken on the moon they’re so clear and crisp. My mom says that her father in law had a friend that worked at NASA that gave them to him. They’re date stamped on the back 1969. One of them is the famous boot print. I’ve been wondering what they were.

Are these photographs of the television transmission? If so, they will be black and white and have visible scan lines as shown in the photo above.

        Dave G said:

That kind of money and you’d have thousands of people scouring every inch of the Applied Physics Laboratory and every storage locker in the US, Guam, Australia, Spain or anywhere that had even the most remote chances of having a copy.

If they were not found after a year of offering ten million, you could be assured they were no longer in existance

That might cause more problems than it solves. Imagine if it were found and torn apart by a mob trying to get the tape to cash in! I read the report on it and while I think there is the possibility that the secondary recordings may exist, it’s pretty remote.

I realize you can’t do this, but I think if you want a real shot at getting something like the tapes you mentioned above that might be at the Applied Physics Laboratory would be to offer an outrageously high reward for them. IF they exist, they WILL be found if someone offered something like ten million dollars for them. That kind of money and you’d have thousands of people scouring every inch of the Applied Physics Laboratory and every storage locker in the US, Guam, Australia, Spain or anywhere that had even the most remote chances of having a copy. If they were not found after a year of offering ten million, you could be assured they were no longer in existance