The End of Operation Moonwatch

ID: 75-6750-12

Creator: Unknown

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1975

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 2, Folder: September 1975

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Summary

The end of Operation Moonwatch is observed by (from left) Albert Werner, last chief of the program (1968-1975); Fred Lawrence Whipple, former director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (1955-1973) and founder of the Baker-Nunn tracking network and Moonwatch; Frederick C. Durant, III, Assistant Director of the Department of Astronautics, National Air and Space Museum, who is holding an original Moonwatch telescope donated to the museum by SAO; Grace Spitz, wife of Armand N. Spitz, former Moonwatch director, 1956-1957; and David Challinor, Assistant Secretary for Science, (1971-1985).

Subject

  • Whipple, Fred Lawrence 1906-
  • Spitz, Armand
  • Durant, Frederick C., III
  • Challinor, David
  • Operation Moonwatch
  • Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
  • National Air and Space Museum

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Featured in TORCH, September 1975

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 2, Folder: September 1975

Contact information

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

Date

1975

Restrictions & Rights

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Topic

  • Spitz, Grace
  • Werner, Albert
  • Observatories
  • Moon
  • Outer space
  • Astronautics
  • Event

Form/Genre

Photographic print

ID Number

75-6750-12

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Event; Medium: Photographic print

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