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Moon camera up for auction may or may not have been to the Moon

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Later this year, an auction house in Austria is putting up a vintage Hasselblad 500 EL Data Camera, which it claims was used during an Apollo Moon mission and is the only such camera to be brought back to Earth.

Before you start counting out your penny jar, though, you should really read Robert Pearlman’s analysis of the camera and its history at Space.com
via Boing Boing

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