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National Air and Space Museum (U.S.). Division of Space History
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1983-1991
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3.7 Cubic feet (15 cassette boxes; 5 letter-size document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1999.0035
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of the oral history transcripts and related research documentation for the Space Telescope History Project (STHP), which examined the space sciences, predominantly astronomy, viewed through the lens of a particular undertaking, the Hubble Space Telescope, 1970s-1980s.
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Kathryn D. Sullivan Papers
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Sullivan, Kathryn
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1970s - 2010s
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15.23 Cubic feet (34 boxes.)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2019.0007
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of approximately 15.23 cubic feet of papers, photographs, certificates, and video/film, created or collected by Kathryn Sullivan, spanning her lifetime of achievement.
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Giacconi, Riccardo
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1955-2002
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82.13 cu. ft. (80 record storage boxes) (2 document boxes) (1 16x20 box) (1 blueprint storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7416
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document Riccardo Giacconi's professional career, and consist of papers illustrating his scientific work and administrative records relating to the institutions at which he worked. There is extensive documentation of Giacconi's professional activities, including meetings attended, papers presented (and published), his services a...
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Carruthers, George R.
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1970s - 2010s
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7.34 Cubic feet (9 boxes of various size, 1 folder, 1 map folder)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2020.0024
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
This collection consists of material documenting the space science career of Dr. George Carruthers.
This collection is in English.
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1989
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7 videotapes (Reference copies). 25 digital .wmv files and .rm files (Reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9542
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Videohistory Program, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from 1986 until 1992, used video in historical research. Additional collections have been added since the grant project ended. Videohistory uses the video camera as a historical research tool to record moving visual information. Video works best in historical r...
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Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Assistant Director (Science)
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1961-1973
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18.5 cu. ft. (18 record storage boxes) (1 document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 253
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This record unit consists of administrative records maintained by Charles A. Lundquist as assistant director (Science), which primarily concern SAO scientific projects. Projects represented in the records include the Satellite Tracking Program, Celescope Project, Gravitational Redshift Space Probe Experiment, Hydrogen Maser Program, Very ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary for Research
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circa 1963-1986
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114 cu. ft. (228 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 329
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records document the administration, under David Challinor, of the science bureaus of the Smithsonian Institution, c. 1975-1985. Also included are a few records from 1971-1974 and 1986. Series 1 consists of records of the offices reporting to the Assistant Secretary for Science, including the Center for the Study of Man and the National...
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Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary for Science
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1963-1978
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76.5 cu. ft. (153 document boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 254
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of a correspondence register; files on bureaus administered by the office, including reorganization proposals for SSIE, 1972-1973, photographs of the STRI facility at Barro Colorado Island, the Johnson-Sea-Link Accident, 1973, SAC's Multiple Mirror Telescope project, 1975-1976, and the Foreign Currency Program country ...
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1986-1987
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8 videotapes (Reference copies). 22 digital .wmv files and .rm files (Reference copies).
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 9539
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Videohistory Program, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from 1986 until 1992, used video in historical research. Additional collections have been added since the grant project ended. Videohistory uses the video camera as a historical research tool to record moving visual information. Video works best in historical r...
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Science Service
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1920-1979
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41.04 Cubic feet (114 boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NASM.1987.0125
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National Air and Space Museum Archives
Science Service was founded in 1921 by newspaper publisher Edward Willis Scripps (1854-1926) and the zoologist William Emerson Ritter (1856-1944) as a news service for the purpose of disseminating information on scientific progress to the public, and to "present facts in readable and interesting form." The Science Service Astronomy and Astronautics files in the National Air and Space Archives consists of papers, news releases, articles, newspaper and magazine clippings, and technical papers pertaining mainly to astronomy and astronautics and dating from the late 1920s through the early 1970s.
