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The First Hasselblad and Zeiss lens in Space
Sold for $275,000!
November 13, 2014 | 3:00 PM ET
RR Auction Gallery | 236 Commercial Street, Boston, MA 02109
Camera Specifications
Hasselblad 500c (TV 45279)
Carl Zeiss, Planar 1:2.8 f=80mm (Nr2823801)
Film magazine (TV59228)
Hasselblad
The first Hasselblad in Space flown by Wally Schirra on Mercury-Atlas 8
The first Hasselblad in Space, this camera body has been photo confirmed as having been carried into orbit aboard Wally Schirra’s Mercury-Atlas 8 (MA-8) mission and attested to by Gordon Cooper as being used during Mercury-Atlas 9 (MA-9). The body measures 3 x 3.5 x 3.5 and is serial numbered inside the housing on the camera body, below the shutter, “TV 45279.”