A 70mm modified Hasselblad (Swedish) Model 500c will be used for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Gemini 5 mission. The Synoptic Terrain Photography Experiment (S5) primary objective is to get hi-quality pictures of large land areas that have been previously well-mapped by aerial photography. The magazine capacity of this camera ist 55 frames per roll. Normally, this camera will be in use 5 to 10 minutes, taking a photograph ervery six seconds of a 100 mile-wide area, thus giving continent wide coverage when the individual frames are mounted as a continous photographic strip.
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1965-08-15
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