The first camera to land on the moon, Hasselblad, is celebrating lunar photography’s 40th anniversary with spaceman Buzz Aldrin. H3DII photographers will have the chance to hang out with the second man on the moon and the design team behind the camera at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA.

In 1962, Astronaut Walter Schirra took his Hasselblad onboard the Mercury-Atlas 8 and took the first images of earth from space.

Hasselblad photographers will be treated to a weekend of training and workshops, as well as a selection of images from the moon’s first photographer, Aldrin, who stepped onto the lunar surface with the large-format camera in hand.

Hasselblad customers who purchase an H3Dll-50 or H3Dll-60 camera between July 1 and August 21, 2009 will be eligible to join Buzz Aldrin and the Hasselblad Design Team on an all expenses paid trip to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA between September 24 and 26 2009

“Obviously, lunar travel posed even more demanding challenges than shooting inside a space capsule, with the extreme temperatures and dust and such placing serious trains on any equipment,” explains Christian Poulsen, CEO of Hasselblad. “Lunar photography leaves no margin for errors, no room for second chances. NASA wanted the best cameras possible – and they chose Hasselblad”

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