George Robert Carruthers – inventor, physicist, engineer, and space scientist

George Robert Carruthers was an inventor, physicist, engineer, and space scientist. He perfected a compact and very powerful ultraviolet camera for NASA to use when it launched Apollo 16 in 1972. He designed it so astronauts could use it on the lunar surface, making all adjustments inside their bulky space suits. They used the camera to record the Earth’s outermost atmosphere and also mapped portions of the far-ultraviolet sky recording stars and galaxies.