Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Solarsystem Collection
title:
U.S. Space Plans
description:
An American team at a press confernce announcing plans for the building and launching of the first man-made satellite.

The then Presidential press secretary James Hagerty is shown with five scientists during the meeting at which announcement of President Eisenhower's approval of the plan was made.

Front, left to right, are: Dr. Alan T. Waterman, Hagerty, Dr. S. Douglas Cornell and Dr. Alan Shapley. Standing, left to right: Dr. J. Wallace Joyce and Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus.

*Image Credit*: NASA History Office
date:
07.29.1955
keywords:
Solar System Exploration
keywords:
SSE
keywords:
Space
keywords:
NASA
keywords:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
keywords:
JPL
keywords:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
keywords:
Planets
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
facet_where:
Douglas
facet_where:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_when:
07-29-1955
facet_when_year:
1955
UID:
SPD-SLRSY-363
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U.S. Space Plans