RR Auction of Massachusetts has scheduled Nov. 13 for its special live sale of the Hasselblad 500C camera, which includes components used aboard the fifth and sixth U.S. As the first Hasselblad to be flown into space, the camera led to NASA adopting the Swedish brand's equipment for the lunar landings later that decade. "This camera's body has been photo confirmed as having been carried into orbit on Wally Schirra's Mercury-Atlas 8 mission and attested to by Gordon Cooper as being used during Mercury-Atlas 9," the one-lot auction catalog reads. "Forensic examination of official NASA [photos] confirms this Hasselblad camera body as the one Schirra carried on MA-8." [NASA's Project Mercury in Pictures]
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