George Robert Carruthers: Astronautical Engineer and Astronomer Astronautical engineer and astronomer George Robert Carruthers, a name well-known and dearly regarded in the space science community, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. George Carruthers, right, and William Conway, left, examine the golden-hued Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph, which would ...

The pioneering scientist, who died recently, included his astronomical camera on a NASA Moon mission in 1972. It’s still there today. On the Moon is a monument to a Cincinnati-born scientist. The ...

This collection consists of material documenting the space science career of Dr. George Carruthers. This collection is in English. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 1, 1939, George Carruthers ...

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 going ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left to right, this graphic illustrates how NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and ...

Nine years after astronaut Neil Armstrong was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio, another pioneer of space exploration entered the world in the Buckeye State. In October 1939, the black astrophysicist George ...

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’s ...

Rochester Institute of Technology’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science held its annual Imaging Hall of Fame induction ceremony Dec. 15 to honor visionaries from the past and the present.

George Robert Carruthers: Astronautical Engineer and Astronomer Astronautical engineer and astronomer George Robert Carruthers, a name well-known and dearly regarded in the space science community, ...

The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory will observe an area of Earth's outer atmosphere called the geocorona. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...