Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout

Left: The Lunar Orbiter camera system sitting in the bottom half of the pressurized shell. Project Manager Cliff Nelson (left) stands with NASA/Langley team members Calvin Broome, Israel Taback, and Joe Mooreman. From NASA. Right: Lunar Orbiter frame 5017-M, showing artifacts from Kodak's camera system. From NASA/LOIRP. In 1966 and 1967, NASA sent five robotic…