Po raz pierwszy po 20 latach można publicznie zobaczyć aparat, którym Frank Culbertson wykonał zdjęcia po ataku terrorystycznym na NY. Co ciekawe NASA, nie przywiązywała do niego większej wagi i został uwolniony z rządowej przynależności.Astronaut's camera used to capture 9/11 aftermath goes on displaySeptember 10, 2021 — Many cameras captured the tragic events and aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States. One camera, though, had a vantage point and human connection like no other, high above the planet on board the International Space Station.
That camera is now on display for the first time since it was used 20 years ago.(...)
460-2274The digital camera that Culbertson used to photograph the scene was not set aside by NASA as an artifact that day. Launched on the space shuttle Discovery with other supplies for the space station in March 2001, the camera remained aboard the orbiting outpost until December of that same year, returning to Earth on the space shuttle Endeavour.
Sometime after that, NASA downgraded the camera from "Class I," the agency's label for flight-ready hardware, to "Class III," for training-use only. Whether it was subsequently damaged or eventually deemed obsolete, the camera was released by NASA as surplus government property.
That might have been the end of it had the camera not found its way into Timm Chapman's collection. A self-described avid Nikon collector and photographer, Chapman already had several other cameras used by astronauts on the space shuttle and space station and so he knew how to research this camera's history. In particular, he knew to look for a seven-digit number: 460-2274.
"This serial number can be tagged back to the metafile from the actual digital images produced by this camera. Over 100 images from this camera and their metafile data can be found on NASA's online image library," Chapman wrote on his website. "This camera is specially unique as it was the camera that astronaut Frank Culbertson used to photograph New York City on September 11th, 2001, hours after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center."(...)
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