Lot #59: 1969 HASSELBLAD MAGAZINE NASA APOLLO VII VIII MAN SPACE MOON CAMERA

VINTAGE 1969 CAMERA MAGAZINEHASSELBLAD NASA eMAN IN SPACETHE FIRST APOLLO MISSIONSAPOLLO VII & VIITHE BEGINNINGS OF AMERICAN SPACE FLIGHTVictor Hasselblad AB is a Swedish manufacturer of medium-format cameras and photographic equipment based in Gothenburg, Sweden. The company is best known for the medium-format cameras it has produced since World War II. Perhaps the most famous use of the Hasselblad camera was during the Apollo program missions when humans first landed on the Moon. Almost all of the still photographs taken during these missions used modified Hasselblad cameras.Several different models of Hasselblad cameras were taken into space, all specially modified for the task.The Hasselblad cameras were selected by NASA because of their interchangeable lenses and magazines. Modifications were made to permit ease of use in cramped conditions while wearing spacesuits, such as the replacement of the reflex mirror with an eye-level finder.Modifications by NASA technicians were further refined and incorporated into new models by Hasselblad. For example, development of a 70 mm magazine was accelerated to meet the space program.The first modified (in fact simplified) Hasselblad 500 C cameras were used on the last two Project Mercury missions This Booklet is original , 1969 Pickup category timeslot {A}