O n the Moon is a monument to a Cincinnati-born scientist. The memorial is not terribly large, but it’s covered in gold. The Lunar Surface Ultraviolet Camera is the only astronomical observatory ...

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 ...

George Carruthers, center, ... The astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr. in 1972 during the Apollo 16 mission with the lightweight, gold-plated ultraviolet camera that Dr. Carruthers built.

George R. Carruthers, an astrophysicist and engineer who was the principal designer of a telescope that went to the moon as part of NASA’s Apollo 16 mission in 1972 in an effort to examine Earth ...

George Carruthers, right, and William Conway, left, examine the golden-hued Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph, which would become the first moon-based observatory. (Image credit: U.S. Naval ...

In October 1939, the black astrophysicist George Carruthers was born in Cincinnati. Like the older, considerably more famous fellow Ohioan, Carruthers charted a course to the moon, not as an ...

Astronautical engineer and astronomer George Robert Carruthers, a name well-known and dearly regarded in the space science community, and a good friend of the National Air and Space Museum, passed ...

George Carruthers built his first telescope from a kit in 1949, when he was 10 and living in rural Ohio. Fascinated by space, he devoured magazine articles about space travel.If the unknown was ...

George Carruthers (right), one of his co-op students, Garland Dixon (middle), and David DeVorkin (left) preparing the fully restored flight backup Apollo 16 camera for display at NASM, circa mid ...