By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia He built his first telescope at the age of 10, and by age 25, George Carruthers earned a Ph.D. in aeronautical and astronautical engineering. Upon graduating from the University of Illinois, Dr. Carruthers started work at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. His telescope and image converter identified molecular hydrogen in space, and his ultraviolet spectrograph was used by the Apollo 16 crew in their flight to the moon. “In March 1610, Galileo Galilei reported the first use of a telescope to view mountains and maria on the moon,” Dr. Carruthers […]
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