Sunday, December 09, 2012

Last man on the Moon left his Hasselblad camera behind 40 years ago




The last man on the Moon, Apollo 17 commander Eugene A. Cernan, left his Hasselblad camera behind 40 years ago in December 1972 – without taking a picture of his last footstep...

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PICTURE
Top left: a chest-mounted Hasselblad pictured during training for the Apollo 17 Moon landing.
Bottom left: Commander Eugene A. Cernan on Apollo 17.
Main picture: Portrait by Cernan of fellow crew member Harrison Hagan “Jack” Schmitt on the Moon. Note the camera on his chest-mounted Remote Control Unit (RCU).
PICTURES: NASA

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