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Apollo Hasselblad auction
Friday, January 31, 2014 9:31
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The WestLicht Gallery in Vienna, Austria has announced its March 22 auction will include a 70-millimeter Hasselblad Electric Data Camera (EDC) that was used on the surface of the moon during the 1971 Apollo 15 mission. The camera, according to the gallery, can be identified as the same used by moonwalker Jim Irwin by the registration number on its Reseau plate, a small glass pane that was used to superimpose crosshairs on the 299 photos taken by the camera. WestLicht is also claiming the Hasselblad camera is the only one returned to Earth, though the mission transcripts suggest that at least one, if not two others, were brought back from the moon.
Source: http://www.collectspace.com/index.html#0131141020
