Operation Moonwatch Event, Biloxi, Mississippi

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Object Details

Author

Unknown

Subject

Operation Moonwatch

Moonwatch Program

Satellite Tracking Program

Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Notes

Photograph included in the transcript of Fred L. Whipple Oral History Interviews by Pamela M. Henson, June 24, 1976, in Smithsonian Institution Archives.

Summary

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 earth satellites to be launched during the International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9520, Box 1, Fred L. Whipple Oral History Interviews

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

c. 1958

Standard number

91-6389

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Type

Photographic print

Group, candid

Interior

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and white; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Group; Interior; Medium: Photographic print

Place

Mississippi

Data Source

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic

Astronomy

Children

Event

Special events

Visitors' centers

Women

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Record ID

siris_sic_11597