Presentation of Able-Baker Space Flight Equipment to National Air Museum

ID: SIA RU000095 [SIA_000095_B57_F24_001]

Creator: United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs

Date: 1960

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 57, Folder 24, Image No. SIA_000095_B57_F24_001

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Summary

Presentation of space flight equipment, used to transport monkeys Able and Baker, to the National Air Museum by the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency, featuring capsule used by Baker, a female squirrel monkey, with Secretary Leonard Carmichael and Lieutenant General John Honeycutt Hinrichs, Chief of Ordnance, U.S. Army.

Subject

  • Carmichael, Leonard 1898-1973
  • Hinrichs, John Honeycutt 1904-1990
  • National Air Museum (U.S.)
  • National Air and Space Museum

Notes

USNM No. 47049

Cite as

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 57, Folder 24, Image No. SIA_000095_B57_F24_001

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

  • 1960
  • November 17, 1960

Restrictions & Rights

  • No access restrictions. Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
  • No Copyright - United States

Topic

  • Able (Monkey)
  • Miss Baker (Monkey)
  • Exhibitions

Form/Genre

  • Black-and-white photographs
  • Collection descriptions

Local number

SIA RU000095 [SIA_000095_B57_F24_001]

Physical description

Gelatin silver prints; 8 x 10;

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