George Carruthers with ultraviolet camera spectrograph (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

George Carruthers with ultraviolet camera spectrograph

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Dr. George Carruthers, right, and William Conway, a project manager at the Naval Research Institute, examine the gold-plated ultraviolet camera/spectrograph, the first moon-based observatory that Carruthers developed for the Apollo 16 mission.

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