Results for "Satellites"
Keep Watching the Skies!: The Story of Operation Moonwatch and the Dawn of the Space Age
- Date: 2008
- Creator: McCray, Patrick (W. Patrick)
- Creator: McCray, Patrick (W. Patrick)
- Blog Post
Meanwhile, back on earth... A Slideshow
- Date: June 5, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="133" caption="Earth, 1971, Apollo 15, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies"][/caption] The planets and outer space used to seem far, far away from our lives down on earth. But as this slideshow reveals, by the mid-twentieth century—with Ford Galaxies in our driveways, satellite-shaped barbeque
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 18-214, National Air and Space Museum (U.S.) Space History Division, Exhibition Records, 1981-2002
- Date: 1981 1981-2002
- Creator: National Air and Space Museum. Space History Division
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Slides, Tapes, and Films, 1959, 1966 and undated
- Date: 1959 1959-1966 1959, 1966 and undated
- Creator: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Moonwatch Division
Operation Moonwatch in Philippines
- Date: 1958
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
- SI History Bibliography
Report: Oral Histories in Meteoritics and Planetary Science: XIII: Fred L. Whipple
- Date: 2004
- Creator: Marvin, Ursula B
- Creator: Marvin, Ursula B
- Authority Record/EAC
Agency history, 1973-
- Date: 1973 1973-
- Creator: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory High Energy Astrophysics Division
- Blog Post
"If you feed them, they will come."
- Date: May 23, 2013
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: Operation Moonwatch created an international network of dedicated and enthusiastic volunteer sky-watchers of both genders and from every walk-of-life. These citizen-scientists joined professional astronomers to track and report on satellites travelling through the night sky. Food and location played a role in keeping volunteers engaged with Operation Moonwatch.
Baker-Nunn Camera
- Date: c. 1958
- Creator: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Creator: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 08-048, Hefferan, Vioalle, Vioalle Hefferan Papers, 1943-1974
- Date: 1943 1943-1974
- Creator: Hefferan, Vioalle
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- SI History Bibliography
New Smithsonian museum records man's thrilling affair with flight
- Date: June 1976
- Creator: Park, Edwards
- Creator: Park, Edwards
- Collection
National Aeronautics and Space Administration Records, 1962-1973
- Date: 1962 1962-1973
- Creator: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Assistant Director (Science)
