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  • The Camera That Went To The Moon And Changed How We See It

    07/13/2019 7:50:29 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 29 replies
    NPR ^ | July 13, 2019 | Scott Neuman
    In the summer of 1962, Walter Schirra — who would soon become America's third man to orbit the Earth — walked into a Houston photo supply shop looking for a camera he could take into space. He came out with a Hasselblad 500C, a high-end Swedish import that had been recommended to him by photographers from Life and National Geographic. "He was sort of an amateur photographer," Jennifer Levasseur, a curator in charge of the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum's astronaut cameras, says of Schirra. "Somewhere along the line, the decision was made that he could select what camera...