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| Date: | 08 15 1960 |
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| Description: | The diagonal streak of Echo, a communications satellite, as it passed over Madison shortly after eleven PM. The image was made with the 35mm camera shutter... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "The 40-inch telescope of the University of Chicago Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, Wisconsin. The object-glass has a diameter of 40... |
| Date: | 08 19 1948 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Telescope with 40 in. Lens, Largest in the World. Williams Bay on Lake Geneva, Wisconsin." On reverse: "The 40 inch telescope of the ... |
| Date: | 04 10 1958 |
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| Description: | A group of Madison youth inspecting and setting up their telescopic equipment for gazing at the skies. This photograph accompanied an article about the gro... |
| Date: | 12 06 1957 |
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| Description: | The small black sensor on the end of the antenna of a model Vanguard satellite, will detect differences in radiation as the satellite passes over the earth... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Young student's crayon and watercolor art inspired by Earth Day, consisting of Earth seen from space overlapping the Moon. A fish, a bird, and a sun decora... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Newton Minow (left) and three men of the Senate Commerce Communications Subcommittee look at a model of the Telstar satellite. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | A group of men study a model of the Telstar satellite. From left to right are: Newton Minow, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, James Webb ... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Newton Minow and another man look at a model of the Telstar satellite. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Telescope at Washburn Observatory with man at controls. |
| Date: | 05 14 1963 |
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| Description: | Lunar trajectory paths and computations on a blackboard are discussed by employees of Milwaukee's Astronautics, Inc. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Maria Mitchell, first woman astronomer in the United States at Vassar College. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Elevated exterior view of Yerkes Observatory. Geneva Lake is in the background, left. Roads and sidewalks cross the sweeping, well tended lawns. The desi... |
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| Description: | Astronaut Neil Armstrong (right), the first man to walk on the surface of the Moon, with Tom Poberezny, the son of EAA founder Paul Poberezny and the presi... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A traveling display about the NASA manned space program on exhibit at Austin Straubel Airport. Included in the exhibit is a model of a space capsule and a ... |
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| Description: | William Lundigan, as Colonel Ed McCauley, and John Howard as Dr. Rowland Kennedy, both dressed in space suits, stand next to each other in what appears to ... |
| Date: | 07 31 1959 |
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| Description: | Arthur Franz, as Captain Tom Farrow on the television show Men Into Space, lays on top of a ladder. He has a look of pain on his face and is dressed... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | The entrance to Yerkes Observatory. Caption reads: "Entrance, Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago, at Williams Bay, Wis." |
| Date: | 12 15 1965 |
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| Description: | The Gemini 7 spacecraft as photographed by the Gemini 6 crew, 160 miles above the earth. The two-man crew of Gemini 7 included Frank Borman and James A. L... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The telescope inside the dome at Yerkes Observatory. |
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