Margaret Chase Smith shows off Telstar
Contributed by Margaret Chase Smith Library
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Sen. Margaret Chase Smith points out the Telstar satellite receiving station in Andover in 1962. Telstar was launched July 10, 1962.
Smith was the ranking Republican member on the Senate's Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee from 1963 to 1971 and had served on the committee before that.
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- Title: Margaret Chase Smith shows off Telstar
- Creator: Margaret Chase Smith Library
- Creation Date: 1962-08-01
- Subject Date: 1962-08-01
- Town: Andover, Skowhegan
- County: Oxford, Somerset
- State: ME
- Media: black and white photograph
- Dimensions (cm): 20.27 x 25.68
- Local Code: 172
- Object Type: Image
For more information about this item, contact:
Margaret Chase Smith Library
56 Norridgewock Avenue, Skowhegan, ME 04976
(207) 474-7133
http://www.mcslibrary.org/
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LC Subject Headings
Project Telstar
Senators--Maine
Artificial satellites
Radomes--Maine--Andover
Smith, Margaret Chase, 1897-1995--Photographs
People
Other Keywords
Artificial satellite
Communications
Margaret Chase Smith
RADOM
Satellite
Telstar
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