Operation Moonwatch Event, Biloxi, Mississippi

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Summary

Under a banner for Operation Moonwatch, people are lined up at the entrance to a Satellite Demonstration set up in Biloxi, Mississippi. The Moonwatch Division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory was created in 1956 as part of the Satellite Tracking Program and established to track and photograph the artificial earth satellites to be launched during the International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958.

Subject

  • Operation Moonwatch
  • Moonwatch Program
  • Satellite Tracking Program
  • Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Photograph included in the transcript of Fred L. Whipple Oral History Interviews by Pamela M. Henson, June 24, 1976, in Smithsonian Institution Archives.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9520, Box 1, Fred L. Whipple Oral History Interviews

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

c. 1958

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Women
  • Visitors' centers
  • Children
  • Astronomy
  • Special events
  • Event

Place

Mississippi

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Group, candid
  • Interior

ID Number

91-6389

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group; Interior; Medium: Photographic print

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