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Re-making Historic Space Cameras
 

Remaking the Apollo 11 Lunar Hasselblad

The story behind recreating one of the most important cameras in history.

 
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Latest Articles
Finding Gene Cernan's Missing Moon Camera
Finding Gene Cernan's Missing Moon Camera

It’s often repeated how most of the cameras that landed on the moon stayed on the moon. Gene Cernan had been telling the story of how he left his camera on the lunar rover for years, recounting the tale in interviews. Looking closer, however, you being to unravel a space-age mystery.

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Remaking the Apollo 11 Lunar Hasselblad
Remaking the Apollo 11 Lunar Hasselblad

Four years ago, I set what seemed like an impossible goal: to make a functional Apollo 11 camera by the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. It was a crazy idea, especially with how inexperienced I was with nearly every process that would be required to do so.

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Remaking the First Hasselblad in Space
Remaking the First Hasselblad in Space

Replicating the First Hasselblad in Space, a stepping-stone to the moon camera. It was 1962. Astronaut Wally Schirra needed a camera for his mission as the third American to orbit the Earth. A photography enthusiast, he picked up a Hasselblad 500C from his local camera store and worked with NASA engineers and a contractor from RCA to modify it for space flight.

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About Cole Rise

Cole Rise is a photographer, entrepreneur, pilot, and space camera maker. He’s the designer of the original Instagram icon and filters and has shot for brands and tourism boards around the world. Obsessed with space and the cameras we sent to the moon, Cole has spent the last six years building a custom workshop for rebuilding the cameras that traveled with us on our greatest journeys, from Mercury to the Shuttle, using many of the same tools and materials available in those time periods.

You can find his latest photographic work here.

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