In 2014, one of the relics from the dawn of the space age resurfaced at auction. Listed as “The First Hasselblad In Space,” it was the genesis camera — the blueprint for all cameras that flew to the surface of the moon, and the beginning of Hasselblad’s storied connection with NASA that lasted through the shuttle-era…
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It’s often repeated how most of the cameras that landed on the moon stayed on the moon. Gene Cernan had been telling the story of how he left his camera on the lunar rover for years, recounting the tale in interviews. Looking closer, however, you being to unravel a space-age mystery.