Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="Visitors viewing "Friendship 7" in the Quonset Hut of the National Air and Space Museum in the South Yard, "Friendship 7" is the Mercury spacecraft in which astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., became the first American to orbit the Earth, On February 20, 1962, Glenn circled the Earth three times, late 1960s - c. 1975, by
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="On January 25, 1904, a military procession to Smithsonian Institution grounds brings the remains of James Smithson (c.1765-1829) whose bequest created the Smithsonian, His remains had been transported by Alexander Graham Bell, a member of the Board of Regents, from Genoa, Italy, after the Italian cemetery had fallen into
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="299" caption="Hanging from the walls of the National Air and Space Museum, the U.S. flag loomed large and proud over the podium at the July 20 celebration of the 20th anniversary of the first lunar landing, President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle joined the three Apollo 22 astronauts- Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="380" caption="James Smithson bronze bust, commissioned by Paul E. Garber, historian emeritus at the National Air and Space Museum, made by sculptor Felix de Weldon, who stands next to it, De Weldon worked from an examination of Smithson's skull performed by Dr. J. Lawrence Angel, curator of Physical Anthropology in the National Museum
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="View of Main Street in La Central Colonia Penal, Coiba Island, Panama, The image was taken by Smithsonian Secretary Alexander Wetmore while on a scientific expedition in Panama to Coiba Island, while completing field work for his four volume work, The Birds of Panama, January 9, 1956, by Alexander Wetmore, Photographic
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="328" caption="Astrophysicist Charles Greeley Abbot (fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1928-1944) carrying the house-fly vane radiometer afoot up the Mount Wilson, California trail. Abbot made this instrument in Pasadena, California, but carried it by hand up the trail
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="427" caption="After three years at the National Portrait Gallery, (l-r) William Trossen, Terry Conable, Lina Best and David Price are moving the Gilbert Stuart portraits of George and Martha Washington for shipment to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where they will be displayed under an alternating exhibition plan worked out in 1980
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="334" caption="Paul Rhymer, Exhibits Specialist in Taxidermy at Exhibits Central, shows off the radio-controlled badger he created for Brian Miller, a post-doctoral fellow working at the National Zoo's Conservation and Research Center (CRC) in Front Royal, VA, The "robo-badger" had been found as road-kill and mailed to Rhymer frozen,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="The Board of Regents meeting, January 15, 1954. In attendance at the meeting was Chief Justice Earl Warren, Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Representative Clarence Cannon, Representative Leroy Johnson, Representative John M. Vorys, Dr. Vannevar Bush, Mr. Robert V. Fleming, Dr. Jerome C. Hunsaker, Justice Owen J. Roberts,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="418" caption="Loyal B. Aldrich (standing), who worked for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory from 1908-1955 and was its director from 1944 to 1955, and two unidentified persons (one of whom is a woman), ride a tram up the side of Mt. Wilson, California, which served as a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory station from 1905 to
Description: At a September 27, 1931, symposium about the evolution of the universe, Watson Davis photographed astronomer Abbé Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, physicist Sir Oliver Lodge, astrophysicist Edward Arthur Milne, and Anglican bishop and mathematician Ernest William Barnes.
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Balloon show project director Roger Pineau holds the end of a liner as exhibits specialists Ben Snouffer (partially hidden) and Bob Klinger make the final adjustments for the suspension of a 32 & 1/2 - foot World War II Japanese attack balloon in the Arts and
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