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Headquarters |
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| Image # : |
glennan_01 |
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| Date : |
08/12/1960
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Title
T. Keith Glennan Shows LBJ Aluminized Mylar Flim Used to Make Echo I
Full Description
NASA Administrator T. Keith Glennan shows then-Senator Lyndon B.
Johnson, Chairman of the Senate's Aeronautical and Space Sciences
Committee, a sample of the aluminized Mylar film used to
fabricate the 100-foot-diameter, automatically inflatable Echo I
balloon.
Project Echo was the U.S.'s first passive communications satellite
that was launched into orbit on August 12, 1960 at 5:39 am EDT.
Keywords
Echo Glennan Lyndon Johnson LBJ balloon Passive Communications
Satellite
Subject Category
VIPs-People at NASA-NACA, Presidents, Earth Science, NASA Management
Reference Numbers
- Center:
HQ
- Center Number:
glennan_01
- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2002-000025
Source Information
- Creator/Photographer: NASA
- Original Source: DIGITAL
| Resolution | Format | Width
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(Pixels) | Size
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Thumbnail |
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67 |
9 |
Small |
JPEG |
593 |
477 |
184 |
Medium |
JPEG |
1389 |
1118 |
943 |
Large |
JPEG |
2777 |
2236 |
5,786 |
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