Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print
Type:
Photographic print
Group, candid
Date:
1987
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Featured in "The Torch," April 1987.
Summary:
Senator John Glenn held a news conference at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) 19 February 1987 in honor of the 25th anniversary of his orbit around the earth in the Mercury Friendship 7 spacecraft. This photo shows Glenn standing with NASM Acting Director James Tyler (l.) in front of the spacecraft.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 5, Folder: April 1987