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Impressive closed-circuit television camera from the fixed service structure at Launch Complex 39 (LC-39) at the John F. Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Florida. The tube-shaped camera, 6.25˝ x 7˝ x 22˝, weighs 25 pounds and features a larger mounting plate to the base and a pair of adjustable brace brackets. The back end of the camera features a “Fill Valve,” an “Over Pressure Safety Valve,” a multi-pin electrical connector, two caution captions, and an affixed RCA parts plate, which reads: “Closed-Circuit Video Equipment, Model No. TC1006/C12, P/N7611626 150, Serial No. 010563.” The top is annotated in felt tip, “NASA,” and the lens housing is marked as “Computar AIC TV Lens, 1:1.8, f=75mm, Japan, No. 800250.” The consignor notes that this camera was likely Camera No. 16, which was focused on the second stage fueling lines. In fine condition, with scattered scuffs and scratches. A robust and rugged piece of hardware hailing from Kennedy Space Center’s storied Launch Complex 39—the very ground from which Apollo astronauts embarked on their pioneering voyages to the Moon.
Accompanied by a color 6 x 4 photo of Space Shuttle astronauts passing down a walkway with a pair of NASA closed-circuit television cameras shown overhead, and a TLS from J. Fisher, an executive of the American Aviation Research Association, which reads: “The museum of American Aviation received six security television cameras from the government. The papers that released them said that [they] came from a private contractor that installed them at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Was told that they [were] used on the pad where Apollo 11 took off…Cameras where sold when the museum group disbanded in 1993.”
