If you’re a space buff, or a history buff and have $250 thousand to spare, you’re in luck. Austria’s WestLicht is auctioning a camera used by astronauts on the Apollo 15 mission to take pictures of the moon.

According to WestLicht this is the only Apollo camera to make the return trip to Earth. Other cameras, they claim, were left on the moon. Astronauts took the film from the other cameras, but brought back rock samples instead of the cameras themselves. CNet and Space.com have both cast doubt on the claim that this is the only remaining Apollo camera. It may be the only Apollo 15 camera, but it appears that are least two Apollo 14 cameras came home.

The camera itself is a Hasselblad 500 ‘EL DATA CAMERA HEDC’, according to the auction house. It is a “first generation NASA motor-driven camera” and has “a special NASA Biogon 3.5/60mm no.5198329 with black/chrome anodized finish with control tabs designed for use with space gloves, silver 70mm”

Bidding on the camera will start at 80 thousand Euros ($108 thousand US) and it is expected to sell for somewhere between $200-270 thousand dollars US.

Information about photography on the Apollo 15 mission as well as the photographs taken on that mission can be found on the NASA website.

Source: WestLicht