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List of NASA cameras on spacecraft

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NASA has operated several cameras on spacecraft over the course of its history.

[[Apollo Program]]

  • Apollo TV camera
  • Hasselblad "Electric Camera" (modified 500 EL) with 70 mm film
  • Maurer Data Acquisition Camera (DAC) with 16 mm film
  • Nikon F with 35 mm film
  • Mapping (Metric) Camera (7.6 cm focal length) with 127 mm film, on Apollo 15, 16, and 17 (see Sherman Fairchild#Lunar photography)[https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/as15psr.pdf Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report], NASA SP-289, 1972
  • Stellar Camera (7.6 cm focal length) with 35 mm film, on Apollo 15, 16, and 17
  • Panoramic Camera (61 cm focal length) with 127 mm film, on Apollo 15, 16, and 17

[[Skylab]]

Personal camera equipment:EP-107 Skylab: A Guidebook, [https://history.nasa.gov/EP-107/ch5b.htm#n4b Chapter 5]

  • Television camera
  • 16 mm film video camera
  • 35 mm film camera
  • 70 mm film camera

Space Shuttle program

  • Space Shuttle booster cameras.{{cite news|last=Madrigal|first=Alexis|title=NASA's Rocket Booster Cam Video|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/07/nasas-rocket-booster-cam-video/241976/|access-date=3 January 2013|newspaper=The Atlantic|date=14 July 2011}}
  • Space Shuttle External Tank camera
  • Columbia
  • Shuttle Infrared Leeside Temperature Sensing experiment
  • Nikon NASA F4

Lunar missions

The camera used two lenses to simultaneously expose a wide-angle and a high-resolution image on the same film. The wide-angle, medium resolution mode used an 80 mm F 2.8 Xenotar lens manufactured by Schneider Kreuznach, Germany. The high-resolution mode used a 610 mm F 5.6 Panoramic lens manufactured by the Pacific Optical Company. The film was developed on-orbit, and then scanned by a photomultiplier for transmission to Earth.

Other missions

See also

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