The Iconic Images Captured by Apollo Astronauts

By Ernie Mastroianni
May 14, 2019 5:00 PMDec 13, 2019 8:49 PM
Wally Schirra - NASA
Wally Schirra inspects a camera during training. He used his personal Hasselblad on his Mercury flight in 1962. (Credit: NASA)

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Like anyone embarking on an exotic trip, astronaut John Glenn wanted to take photos of his upcoming journey in 1962. None of NASA’s equipment was really designed for making pretty pictures, though, so Glenn bought a drugstore camera and got some technicians to modify it for orbit. The dozen or so pictures he took showed the curvature of Earth, the blackness of space and a spectacular sunset. 

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