I visited NASA's
A Human Adventure traveling exhibition in Madrid, and they had a display of various cameras used on their missions. Attached some pics.
Camera #1 is marked as "Apollo-Soyuz Test Project," #2 is "Apollo Camera," (these were not Hasselblads), and #6 is "Apollo Lunar Surface Hasselblad Camera." When leaving the moon, they left the lens and camera mechanism behind to save weight; only the film magazines returned. Also shown a display of 70mm frames from Apollo 12 mission. Sorry for the poor quality: the display was quite dark and no flash photography was allowed.
The exhibition itself was very impressive, including a good overview of NASA's (and surprisingly Russia's) accomplishments and history of space race starting from the visions of Jules Verne. Plenty of original and replica artifacts, including scale models of the rockets, Hubble and ISS. There were some quite nice photographic prints on display as well.
Too bad NASA is not going to be putting men in space in the foreseeable future; that's left to commercial endeavors, us Europeans, and the
Chinese. At least the US Congress recently re-funded a new
James Webb Space Telescope, which will have a 33 megapixel camera (several, in fact).
