Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Fairchild Space & Defense Systems
- Summary
- Telephoto lenses like this one were used during the first live television broadcasts from space made from a black-and-white RCA television camera. The first three Apollo missions used these RCA cameras and Fairchild lenses. Apollo 10 and the lunar landing missions used color cameras.
- Some astronauts objected to adding photography to their busy schedules, but their broadcasts drew millions of viewers and exposed the world to life in space, live on their home TVs. The cameras had lenses for different applications, including a wide angle lens to capture images inside the spacecraft.
- NASA transferred this lens to the Museum in 1973.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from NASA
- Inventory Number
- A19731474000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- EQUIPMENT-Photographic
- Materials
- Metal, glass
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 12.7 x 5.1cm, 0.4kg (5 x 2 in., 13/16lb.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
- Hangar
- James S. McDonnell Space Hangar
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19731474000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv930a4a4ea-2ac9-4404-a3c5-8005fa978ace
