Kodak’s “Pre-Invented” Lunar Orbiter Camera; or, The Fate of SAMOS Readout (invertingvision.com)
60 Years ago today, the first Lunar Orbiter launched on a mission to photograph the Moon in preparation for Apollo. For the occasion, I wrote a history of the camera, originally built by Eastman Kodak for a classified Air Force program. #otd #HistSTM 🗃️🔭 invertingvision.com/2026/08/10/k...