I am a retired research scientist. I worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Princeton University, and Microsoft Research. I’m currently writing a book about the Soviet exploration of Venus.
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donpmitchell 
Hey Don, why dont you show frame 25 from the Zond 3 picture set on your website mentallandscape.com? >:)
Good question. Frame 25 does not appear in the Soviet publication, so I don’t know why they omitted it. My guess is, it had a defect in transmission or the film. I could ask a friend at Sternberg Observatory to see if they have it.
Website, good at you! It is a lot of interesting!
Your site is inspiring! Excellent photo correction. I wish you to continue in the same spirit. Thank you for your efforts!
Thanks for photos and info about Soviet space program!!! 😉
Hi, Don. I just got randomly nostalgic for the old Dhalgren MOO and was glad to see that you at least have the world descriptions preserved at http://mentallandscape.com/Dhalgren.htm Thanks!
Hi Don – I was wondering if you could comment on this article: https://www.inquisitr.com/2151772/proof-of-alien-presence-on-moon-old-soviet-moon-mission-photos-reveal-ufos-alien-artifacts-on-moon-blogger-says/ … In particular, I’m interested in the swastika-shaped artifact you would have found on the old Luna pictures. Is this true and could you point me to the original? Thanks!
None of these are likely to be alien artifacts. The first picture he presents is from the Luna-13 lander. The objects you see nearby are parts of the spacecraft, it pops out a small landing craft with the camera, which lands with a cushioning airbag. The rest of the probe crashes nearby, so you are seeing the debris from that.
The second picture with the little cross of static is just a few pixels and looks like either radio static or a film processing defect.
The third picture of the swastika shaped moon base is a publicity photo from a movie called Iron Sky. They created that image as part of a marketing campaign that included fake news stories. Here is the original: https://web.archive.org/web/20100412103700/http://ironsky.net/thetruthtoday/news/claim-there-are-nazis-on-the-moon/