LO II_o (original 1967 Boeing photo no. 2B 16473-3, 66-H-1471 eq, CS-41669 eq & H3 & H2 (partial) of Frame 162)
“This oblique view of the crater Copernicus can be matched with a near-vertical picture of the area if Lunar Orbiter V follows through as planned. The Copernicus area is one of major “hot spots” on the moon’s front face according to infrared measurements made by Boeing scientists during a total lunar eclipse in 1964. Orbiter II’s telephoto lens captured this central slice of the 60-mile-wide crater on November 23, 1966. Keyhole crater in foreground is Fauth, 13 miles across and 4,500 feet deep. It is 33 miles south of the rime of Copernicus. When the photo was taken, Orbiter II was 28.4 miles above the moon and 150 miles south of the 1,000-foot peaks shown rising from the floor of the crater. The Lunar Orbiter program is managed by NASA’s Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. The Boeing Company is prime contractor for construction and operation of the spacecraft.”
I never tire of this photograph. And it’s the first one I’ve come across of definitive Boeing origination. Back when the company was shit-hot, not the dumpster fire it currently is, at least WRT human-rated spacecraft or aircraft.
Always “stellar”:
www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunarorbiter/frame/?2162
Credit: LPI website
LO II_o (original 1967 Boeing photo no. 2B 16473-3, 66-H-1471 eq, CS-41669 eq & H3 & H2 (partial) of Frame 162)
“This oblique view of the crater Copernicus can be matched with a near-vertical picture of the area if Lunar Orbiter V follows through as planned. The Copernicus area is one of major “hot spots” on the moon’s front face according to infrared measurements made by Boeing scientists during a total lunar eclipse in 1964. Orbiter II’s telephoto lens captured this central slice of the 60-mile-wide crater on November 23, 1966. Keyhole crater in foreground is Fauth, 13 miles across and 4,500 feet deep. It is 33 miles south of the rime of Copernicus. When the photo was taken, Orbiter II was 28.4 miles above the moon and 150 miles south of the 1,000-foot peaks shown rising from the floor of the crater. The Lunar Orbiter program is managed by NASA’s Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia. The Boeing Company is prime contractor for construction and operation of the spacecraft.”
I never tire of this photograph. And it’s the first one I’ve come across of definitive Boeing origination. Back when the company was shit-hot, not the dumpster fire it currently is, at least WRT human-rated spacecraft or aircraft.
Always “stellar”:
www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunarorbiter/frame/?2162
Credit: LPI website