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Only three years ago, Astronaut John Glenn and his Friendship 7 capsule were the symbols of American adventure in space. Today, Glenn is a 43- year-old soft-drink company executive in Texas, and Friendship 7 is on display in the Smithsonian Institution. Both the man and his machine are honored relics of the infancy period of U.S. space travel...
Here is Cambridge, astronomers at the Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory followed the flight closely...
Fred L. Whipple, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, said that the USSR and the U.S. are engaged in two concurrent programs, both of which are "going beautifully...
...Merrihue '56, a physicist at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, was killed almost when he and a companion, Daniel slipped and dropped more than into Huntington Revine...
...Visited the Smithsonian Institution to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the designation of The Star-Spangled Banner as the U.S. national anthem. Standing before the flag that flew over Fort McHenry, Johnson declared: "A number of Americans have complained that The Star-Spangled Banner is not the easiest song to sing. I must admit that I have had a little trouble with a few parts of it myself. But the senti ments attached to that sturdy old song are overwhelming...