To cut weight for the return journey, the cameras, lenses, and accessories were left behind on the moon. The second HEL camera used an 80mm F2.8 to capture images from inside the Eagle lunar module, and a third camera was used inside the Command Module - which remained in orbit - by crew member Michael Collins. The first, which was the camera that snapped the images on the surface of the moon, was outfitted with a Zeiss Biogon 60mm F5.6 lens and a specially designed film magazine that allowed for 200 exposures on Kodak 70mm film. The retrofitted camera was taken aboard the Mercury 8 in 1962, taking photographs while orbiting Earth and paving the way for Hasselblad’s first trip to the moon.Īfter success with the modified 500C, Apollo 11 was equipped with two medium-format cameras, the Hasselblad 500EL Data Camera or HDC and a Hasselblad Electric Camera (HEC). The modified 500C then gained a 70-exposure film magazine instead of the traditional dozen photographs in a single roll. The camera shed its viewfinder, reflex mirror, auxiliary shutter, and even the leather cover to minimize the camera’s weight impact on the mission. Seven years before the first Hasselblad would drop to the dusty lunar surface, NASA and the Swedish camera company worked together to modify cameras for the extremes of space. Wally Schirra, a NASA mission pilot and photo enthusiast, suggested the 500C, a camera he already owned, be adapted to document human space travel. The Hasselblad 500C that initiated a relationship between the camera company and NASA several years before the launch of Apollo 13 was a technologically advanced camera at the time, with a leaf shutter and automatic aperture stop down. Although the crew members of Apollo 11 became the first humans on the moon, the Hasselblad brought the moon back to the rest of the world. Fifty years after the first moon landing, the Hasselblad 500EL that captured one of the most iconic images in history remains on the dusty lunar surface, alongside the footprints of astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
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This article is part of Apollo: A Lunar Legacy, a multipart series that explores the technological advances behind Apollo 11, their influence on the modern day, and what’s next for the moon.Īn American flag wasn’t the only thing we left on the moon. Bean walks with a Hasselblad camera attached to his suit while holding a container filled with lunar soil collected during extravehicular activity on the Apollo 12 mission in 1969. I did get excited when Apollo 11 landed in 1969 and I could honestly say there was a man ON the moon. I think I was seeing all of those jagged ridges and dark patches as something else entirely.
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My mom would take me out to the backyard on full moon nights and try to point out the eyes and nose and mouth, but I just couldn't make it into a face.
I remember when I was a kid, I felt like I was the only one who couldn't see the "man in the moon". There's just something comforting about knowing that everyone in the world grew up seeing the same thing I did. Sometimes I still go outside at night and look for the man in the moon. It is similar to the image of George Washington on a quarter but with more hair. Now every time I see the moon the man is in plain sight. It wasn't a face with a straight on view, but is actually a profile. Was I blind? What couldn't I see? But one day it was clear as day.
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