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Description
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.
About This Item
- 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: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 20.27 cm x 25.68 cm
- Local Code: 172
- Object Type: Image
For more information about this item, contact:
Margaret Chase Smith Library56 Norridgewock Avenue, Skowhegan, ME 04976
(207) 474-7133
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LC Subject Headings
- Smith, Margaret Chase, 1897-1995--Photographs
- Artificial satellites
- Project Telstar
- Senators--Maine
- Radomes--Maine--Andover
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