Hassell country's first camera photographed the Earth from space sold B275 thousand dollars!

Use astronaut Wally Schirra camera to capture the first images known about the Earth from space in 1962 on the journey, "Mercury-Atlas 8" into space. The pictures were taken from "Hassell-country-500-C" camera modified to conform to the conditions of travel through space. This camera sold for $ 275 thousand for the bidder was not disclosed his name on the Internet from the United Kingdom. It was expected that this rare masterpiece bring about 100 thousand dollars.

In October 1962 I shoot astronaut Wally Schirra first images known from the ground of specific space on a mission, "Atlas-Mercury-8" has been used camera Hassell and Zeiss lens to take these pictures, after more than fifty years been selling unique camera at an auction as much as 275 000 dollars more than double the initial estimates the camera has been sold to an anonymous bidder at an auction on the Internet in the United Kingdom.

Mr. Shira chose the camera, "Hassell-country-500-C" Kkamerth to capture these images because of their accuracy and professionalism in photography and still Hassell-country manufactures medium-format cameras based in Gutenbrj Sweden as was this camera is also used during the Apollo program missions when humans landed on the moon .

Mr. Shira said he bought them for himself from a store Houston in 1962 and then took her to NASA in order to be prepared for his mission "Atlas-Mercury-8" was the fifth manned persons carried out by NASA's journey has Dar Shira around the Earth six times in the spacecraft "Sigma -7 "During the period of 9 hours trip was the trip was designed to test geometric characteristics of the ship in orbit third pick up the Shira images across California and the sixth orbit from South America. NASA graphic identity were not began to take shape after only while taking a leading space Shira his camera with him.

But the picture is not as images famous "Earthrise," taken by William Anders in 1968 during a mission, "Apollo-8" and it paved the way for such pictures is credited credited with changing people's perceptions about the planet. Engineers US Air Force has worked in the laboratory of cameras with Wally Schirra and later with fellow astronaut Gordon Cooper to adjust the camera and included the amendment installation of 100 containers movies and pointing device to determine captured and amendments to the image on the surface of the camera has also been re-camera surface coating in black so as to minimize reflections.

Mr. Cooper camera Alhasl-also used the country's next Zeiss lens in the subsequent mission, "Atlas-Mercury -9" and that was the last manned space flight in the US Mercury program was launched in May 15, 1963 and named after the spacecraft to "-7 faith" and ended its mission in 22 course on land management Mr. Cooper.