Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Event; Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Group, candid
Date:
1963
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Summary:
In the Arts and Industries Building, February 20, 1963, Smithsonian Secretary Leonard Carmichael speaking at the presentation of the "Friendship 7" spacecraft which is in the foreground. The men seated behind Secretary Carmichael are (left to right): Senator Clinton P. Anderson, member of the Smithsonian Board of Regents and member of the Senate Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences; Honorable James E. Webb, Administrator of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr.; and Philip S. Hopkins, Director of the National Air Museum, now the National Air and Space Museum.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 58, Folder 15
