You might be interested to know that astronaut John Glenn personally bought and used an Ansco Autoset (basically a relabeled Minolta Hi-Matic... a 35mm "point n shoot") on the first US manned space flight. After paying $20 for it at a local drug store, he had it modified with a handle and pop-up viewfinder to be usable while wearing a space suit. NASA hadn't given any thought to taking still photos during the mission. They were recording video and had a specially modified Leica onboard the Mercury spacecraft, used for ultraviolet astrophotography. But no one had thought to just take some shots of the scenery the astronauts were going to see.
There's a photo of Glenn's camera at:
https://fstoppers.com/astrophotography/first-cameras-space-374354It was Wally Schirra, an enthusiastic shutterbug, who got the use of medium format Hasselblad cameras started. He personally purchased a 500C and lens for around $500 and having it modified for use on the Mercury 8 mission. When Hasselblad learned that one of their cameras have been used in space, they approached NASA to work with them providing Hassies for future missions.
You can see replicas of Schirra's camera and details about the mods here:
https://fstoppers.com/diy/how-cole-rise-re-created-nasas-first-hasselblad-space-202857Among other things, those earliest Hassies had a modified film back that couldn't be removed and increased the number of exposures from 12 with standard 120 film to 100 exposures on a special thin emulsion film Kodak produced especially for NASA.
Incidentally, there are almost no photos of Neil Armstrong actually on the moon. That's because the first man to step out onto the moon was the guy with the camera, taking plenty of shots of Buzz Aldrin, who was busy doing other things during their EVAs. Aldrin only took a few photos. After NASA realized this oversight, later lunar mission astronauts each had a camera strapped to their chest and were encouraged to take as many snapshots as possible. Working a camera in the bulky space suit apparently is quite challenging. It was basically just "point, pray and press the button" shooting during the EVAs.
If you are interested in a free, slightly modified Hasselblad camera, there supposedly are close to a dozen of them gathering dust on the moon, available to anyone ambitious enough to go get them! Those cameras and lenses were left behind to save weight during the return trip (they needed to accommodate all those moon rocks). The film cartridges were removed and brought back from the lunar landing missions.
Enjoy your new/old gem! Get some film, load it and go take some shots with it! (That will make you appreciate your DSLR all the more
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Oh, and watch out for that "Old GAS".... I've got about 400 of those old gems now!!