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...raise $500,000 for conservation, exploration and aeronautic research. His widow Anne Morrow Lindbergh, along with Sons Jon and Land and Daughter Reeve, is appearing at the dinners. The U.S. Postal Service is issuing a special stamp showing the Spirit of St. Louis in flight. In Washington, the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, where the plane is on permanent display, has assembled a collection of Lindbergh memorabilia - including his flying outfit, a $25,000 check he won as a prize for the flight, and his barograph, which recorded altitude changes and proved that he made...
...wooded hill separates the northernmost reach of the College's campus--Currier House--from Cambridge's Fresh Pond neighborhood. On that hill, at the fringe of both academia and the real world, sits the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, housing over 300 astrophysicists--the largest group in the country...
...theoretical astrophysics. The Center is also unique because it brings together under one roof and one name a department of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a division of a federal agency. The Faculty department is the Harvard College Observatory (HCO). The federal division is the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution...
Although HCO owns the building and the grounds and SAO pays rent, SAO is the larger of the Center's two parts. SAO's budget totals $11 million yearly, of which four million dollars comes directly from the Smithsonian Institution. HCO has an annual budget of four million dollars, including $250,000 from its own endowment...
Davis says his grant proposal would have been rejected out of hand if he were a Smithsonian appointee because the National Science Foundation would not want to fund work in another government agency...