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Old 10-30-14, 06:55 PM   #15
Platapus
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Originally Posted by Wolferz View Post
The Apollo 11 astronauts found out what the sun can do to a camera when it's not protected by an atmosphere when they turned their TV camera toward the sun and immediately burned out the lens circuitry.
I actually think that was Apollo 12 and it was Alan Bean who pointed the camera to the sun accidentally.
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