Down the rabbit hole with suitep
I thought to myself, “… how many Hasselblads are left behind on the lunar surface?” … to Google! Which led me straight to the source (in Sweden), then the answer (12), and a gallery of cameras that had made the trip. Including this one, which flew on Apollo 8, Christmas 1968 (and returned):
You know what camera that is? Yes. That is the camera that took THIS PICTURE:
“And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.”
(http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/image/apollo8_xmas.mov)
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