File:George Carruthers, right, and William Conway.jpg

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English: Man's First Moon-Based Space Observatory-The first observatory ever operated by man from a fixed platform outside the earth was this gold-plated ultra-violet (UV) camera/spectograph. It was placed on the moon by the Apollo 16 astronauts, after they landed there April 20,1972.
Date 1960s
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Author U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

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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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George Robert Carruthers

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