NASA's "melted camera" has become a social media thing. As with many photos that spread like wildfire on the Internet, only part of the camera's story has been exposed so far. Here is the rest of it. NASA photographer Bill Ingalls (ingallsimages) has been shooting for the agency for 30 years. His creativity and efforts to get unique images are well known within the agency and to those who follow it — you’ll see his name in the credit of many photos we post on explorenasa. He knows where to set up his cameras to get some of the best NASA shots there are. This launch, of the NASA/German GRACE-FO from Vandenberg Air Force Base on May 22, 2018, had other plans for one of his cameras. "I had six remotes, two outside the launch pad safety perimeter and four inside," said Ingalls. "Unfortunately, the launch started a grass fire that toasted one of the cameras outside the perimeter." The location and vegetation can be seen in the set-up picture (slide 2.) Once the fire reached the camera, it w...