How One Camera Changed NASA and How We Saw the World

https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Get 20% off with this link. The photographs that came from the Apollo missions have become some of the most famous and influential ever taken but these were done with mostly just one make of camera that only came about due to one of the early Mercury astronauts taking a low price commercial camera on board a mission to photo what they saw. So this is the story of how Hasselblad, a small Swedish manufacturer became the pivotal player in showing the world what it was really like in space and on the moon and our place in space. This video is sponsored by Brilliant : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Written, researched and presented by Paul Shillito Images and footage : NASA, Hasselblad, Mike Thomas And a big thanks go to all our Patreons :-) Eριχθόνιος JL Adriaan_von_Grobbe Alipasha Sadri Andrew Smith Brian Kelly Cameron Elliot Carl Soderstrom Charles Thacker ChasingSol Collin Copfer Daniel Davenport Dom Riccobene erik ahrsjo Etienne Dechamps Florian Muller George Bishop II Glenn Dickinson Henning Bitsch inunotaisho Jesse Postier Jim Early Jonathan Merage Jonathan Travers Ken Schwarz L D László Antal Lorne Diebel Mark Heslop oldGhostbear Paul Freed Paul Shutler pizza smuggler Pu239 Samuel Finch SHAMIR stefan hufenbach Steve Ehrmann Steve J - LakeCountySpacePort tesaft Thales of Miletus Tim Alberstein Tomasz Leszczyński Will Lowe Music from the Youtube library Toccata in D minor by J S Bach