That’s awesome, but I’m a rotten catcher. There goes my camera.
From the looks of it, the ball itself is made of some sort of foam rubber with the camera modules recessed into it. That said, I'd bet the guy on the mountain was really hoping that he'd be able to catch it when it came back down.
Didn't it say it had 36 cameras in it? You still have 35 left.
If it was available for use in 1963, I'd bet the broken camera would have been the one pointed at the grassy knoll...