PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE APOLLO FLIGHT AND ON THE MOON

70mm HASSELBLAD FILM MAGAZINE
Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong used this film magazine during his Apollo 11 moonwalk. The magazine fits the lunar surface 70mm Hasselblad camera and holds 200 exposures of a thin-based film.

LUNAR SURFACE 70mm HASSELBLAD CAMERA
Used for lunar surface color still photography. This camera was adapted from the commercial Hasselblad Superwide Angle camera and could operate on Earth, in space and on the Moon without modification.

AUTOMATIC SPOTMETER
Exposure meter used by Apollo 11 astronauts to set their camera exposures accurately in the stark lighting conditions of space.

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Racing to Space
The Moon decision
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Apollo 11
Later Apollo missions
What we learned about the Moon
After the Apollo Program


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