posted 02-14-2021 10:15 AM               

The LGEC was the brain child of Dr. Eugene Shoemaker, known as "the Father of Astrogeology," who originally envisioned it as a part of a system known as the Lunar Staff. This system, had it come to be used, would have been hand carried by the Apollo crewmen on the lunar surface. The Lunar Staff went through various design changes, but essentially would have included a mobile television camera, a laser range finding reflector system, a spectrographic system, a sun compass, the LGEC, and various other experiments for performing lunar geology on site. The Lunar Staff was tested in a series of EVA experiments by the USGS at various sites in Arizona, beginning in 1966.

posted 02-15-2021 08:52 AM               

First, the company developing the camera was overwhelmed by it and went bankrupt. Second, a person in George Mueller's office did not like Dr. Eugene Shoemaker and he supposedly worked against the camera idea.