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Neil in color

Photo: NASA

Neil packing the bulk sample with an open rock box. NASA says this “is the only good Hasselblad picture of Neil on the lunar surface.” The commercial Hasselblad 500 EL camera took color photos and was capable of functioning in the vacuum of space.

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