Giuseppe Colombo at Work

Summary

Giuseppe Colombo, describing the orbital path of the Mariner 10 spacecraft mission to Mercury during a scientific briefing in 1974. Dr. Colombo, a space scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and an internationally known expert on space structures, held a number of university teaching posts in Italy prior to his appointment, in 1961, as visiting celestial mechanic at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and in 1962, as a visiting research associate, Harvard College Observatory. Dr. Colombo shuttled regularly among Padua, Cambridge, Mass., and Pasadena to dispense advice and counsel and share an apparently unlimited fund of ideas for unlocking the secrets of the solar system and for innovative spacecraft to explore it. He died February 20, 1984.

Subject

• Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
• Harvard College Observatory
• Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Featured in TORCH, April 1984

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 4 Folder April 1984

Contact information

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

Date

1974

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Colombo, Giuseppe
• Observatories
• Space sciences
• Space scientists

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Person, candid

ID Number

95-254

Physical description

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

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