George R. Carruthers, scientist who designed telescope that went to the moon, dies at 81
George R. Carruthers, scientist who designed telescope that went to the moon, dies at 81 Matt Schudel, The Washington Post Dec. 31, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail 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 the earth's atmosphere and the composition of interstellar space, died Dec. 26 at a Washington hospital. He was 81. His brother Gerald Carruthers confirmed the death, saying his brother had dementia and other ailments. Carruthers, who built his first ...
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