Fifty years ago Hasselblad sent the first cameras to the moon.

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Astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong used them to document the moon and life aboard Apollo 11.

View of the Earth rising over the moon's horizon taken from the Apollo 11 spacecraft.NASA
▼ On July 20th Hasselbladcelebrates its fiftieth anniversary as the maker of the camera that documented the historic moon landing. NASA and Hasselblad began working together in 1962 during the Mercury program, seven years before the moon mission, to ensure that the cameraswould function properly in the intense cold temperatures and decreased gravity in space.
Project Mercury astronaut Walter Schirra actually owned a Hasselblad 500Cand suggested that NASA and Hasselblad work together to document the missions to space. To prepare the cameras for the journey, Hasselblad had to remove a number of elements to reduce the overall weight of the camera, including the leather covering, auxiliary shutter, reflex mirror, and the viewfinder. The custom film magazine held enough film for 70 frames instead of the normal 12. The cameras were then painted matte black to minimize reflections from the window of the orbiter. The camera first accompanied astronauts into space on Mercury 8in October 1962.

Neil Armstrong's footprint in lunar soil.NASA
The cameras that captured the first frames from the moonin 1969 was a Hasselblad Data Camera (HDC) with a Zeiss Biogon 60mm f/5.6 lens and a 70mm film magazine, and a Hasselblad Electric Camera (HEC) with a Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.8 lens. The HDC included a Réseau plate, (▪ ▪ ▪)

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50 years ago they were a revolutionary camera, but today pale in comparison with the new technology.