| NASA Center: |
Headquarters |
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| Image # : |
jfkandtitov1962 |
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| Date : |
05/03/1962
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Title
German Titov, John Glenn and JFK at the White House
Full Description
Second cosmonaut German Titov (right) appears with NASA astronaut
John Glenn and President John Kennedy at the White House in 1962.
Titov was in Washington to give his account of the Vostok 2
spaceflight to the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR). The
twenty-five-year-old Titov was the youngest person to ever go
into space - a record that still stands to this day.
Keywords
German Titov John Glenn President John F. Kennedy COSPAR Vostok
White House
Subject Category
Astronauts, Mercury-Astronaut, Presidents, Soviet People-Cosmonauts
Reference Numbers
- Center:
HQ
- Center Number:
jfkandtitov1962
- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2002-000170
Source Information
- Original Source: DIGITAL
- Source/Capture Information: Asif Siddiqi
| Resolution | Format | Width
(Pixels) | Height
(Pixels) | Size
(KBytes) |
Thumbnail |
JPEG |
63 |
50 |
6 |
Small |
JPEG |
448 |
353 |
100 |
Medium |
JPEG |
1050 |
827 |
566 |
Large |
JPEG |
2100 |
1654 |
2,425 |
Publication Information
Image from the files of Asif Siddiqi. Image and caption from
Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-
1974 (NASA SP-2000-4408) by Asif A. Siddiqi.
Please note that the image number assigned to this image is not
an official NASA number. It is for GRIN database purposes only.
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