Rocket Row on West Side of A&I Building
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Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Arts and Industries Building
- National Air and Space Museum
- South Yard
- Rocket Row
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Original negative number is A4574, but that negative has been lost.
- Summary
- Rocket Row along the west side of the Arts and Industries Building before the National Air and Space Museum was built. Four of the rockets on exhibit are: From left to right, the Jupiter C, which launched Explorer I, the first U.S. satellite; the Vanguard; the Polaris A-3, the first U.S. submarine-launched Intercontinental Ballistic Missile; and the Atlas, the famed Mercury launch vehicle. Note that this image has the Polaris A-3, which was substituted for the Polaris A-1 in 1967.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 32, Folder: 6
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1967 or after
- Standard number
- 2002-12168
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Exterior
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Exterior; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Astronautics
- Atlas (Rocket)
- Automobile parking
- Automobiles
- Jupiter-C Rocket
- Museum buildings
- Museum visitors
- Parking lots
- Polaris
- Rockets (Aeronautics)
- Space vehicles
- Vanguard (missile)
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9545
- Metadata Usage (text)
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