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This one is for the photography buffs out there — a look at photo equipment carried by Apollo 11 astronauts, designed to capture scientifically interesting sites and potential landing sites, and also to obtain photographs of the lunar module and surface activities, and record and document mission activities for crew training purposes. The Camera Equipment included one 70-mm Hasselblad electric camera, two 70-mm lunar surface superwide-angle cameras, one Hasselblad El data camera, two 16-mm Maurer data acquisiton cameras, one 35-mm surface close-up stereoscopic camera, and a television camera, along with other materials. During the mission, nine magazines of 70-millimeter film and 13 magazines of 16-millimeter film were exposed. The 16-millimeter film taken during lunar module descent provided the first accurate knowledge of the exact landing point of the lunar surface. The 70-millimeter photographs taken on the lunar surface provided panoramic views of the surface near the landed LM ...

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