The End of Operation Moonwatch
Close
Download IIIF ManifestRequest permissionsDownload image PrintID: 75-6750-12
Creator: Unknown
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1975
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 2, Folder: September 1975
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).
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Featured in TORCH, September 1975
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 2, Folder: September 1975
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1975
No restrictions
Photographic print
75-6750-12
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Event; Medium: Photographic print