George Carruthers, left, and William Conway, a project manager at the Naval Research Institute, examine the gold-plated Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph, which housed the first observatory operated by man from a fixed platform outside the Earth. Apollo 16 astronauts placed the camera, invented by Carruthers, on the moon in April 1972. U.S. Naval Research Laboratory photo
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