Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="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
Description: As Summer 2021 winds down, we'll take a look at some examples of the breadth of work and collections that are represented at the Smithsonian Institution.
Description: On July 20, 1969, television broadcasters and Smithsonian visitors joined in watching history in the making when astronauts stepped onto the Moon.
Description: Anthropologist Dr. Priscilla Copeland Reining, social anthropologist and Africanist, coordinated the Smithsonian's Urgent Anthropology Program, specialized in desertification, population, fertility, and HIV/AIDS, and pioneered the use of satellite imagery in conjunction with ethnographic data. #Groundbreaker