There are 12 Hasselblad Cameras on the Surface of the Moon

  • Michael Zhang · Jun 15, 2011
 

Last week we shared about how astronauts left some Nikon DSLR gear to burn up in the atmosphere instead of having it brought back to Earth, but it certainly wasn’t the first time cameras were left in space. Did you know that there are 12 Hasselblad cameras currently sitting on the surface of the moon? The cameras that shot those iconic images of the moon’s surface between 1969 and 1972 were left there to allow for the 25kg of lunar rock samples that were brought back instead. Only the film magazines were brought back.

 

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  • http://www.facebook.com/ppucci Persio Pucci

    thank God they remembered to bring the rolls back!

  • http://twitter.com/drayke Drayke

    So I could be the proud new owner of twelve barely used Hassies and all I have to do is find a way to get to the Moon? I have some plannin’ to do!

  • http://www.simonponder.net Simonponder

    hmm, and hear i have been wanting to get a Hasselblad

  • Ezedm85

    If I were rich, I could go to the moon and collect the Hasselblad, and when I return to earth would have millions of dollars in my hands

  • http://twitter.com/sterileeye Øystein H.

    I wrote a post on the Apollo Hasselblad cameras a while back. Check it out: http://wp.me/p8Q0i-n9

  • http://twitter.com/kombizz kombizz

    I wonder if those Hasselblad cameras were sold or donated?

  • http://twitter.com/zak Zak Henry

    Almost certainly custom made for NASA

  • http://twitter.com/HLimPhotography Harry Lim

    but if you were rich, you’d already have millions in your hands. :)

  • Alan G.

    And I thought Kodak invented the disposable camera.

  • http://www.facebook.com/dlemckert Dennis Lemckert

    They were designed and custom built as to NASA’s specs. Paid for. Not donated.
    In and of themselves they’re worth a bunch. I think if you call Hasselblad and order one of these, you’ll be set back a house and a sailingyacht.

  • http://www.facebook.com/dlemckert Dennis Lemckert

    They were designed and custom built as to NASA’s specs. Paid for. Not donated.
    In and of themselves they’re worth a bunch. I think if you call Hasselblad and order one of these, you’ll be set back a house and a sailingyacht.

  • Gabe Sturdevant

    dont tell Zack Arias

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