Soviet Scientists visit Langley Research Center
A group of Soviet scientists, members of the USSR Commission for Interplanetary Travel of the Soviet Academy of Sciences visited the NASA Langley Research Center on November 21, 1959. The group was in the United States as invited guests at a meeting of the American Rocket Society. That meeting took place in Washington, DC, and during the course of that meeting the group was invited to tour the Langley Research Center. Hopes of a reciprocal invitation to visit Soviet space research facilities were never fulfilled. Left to right: Front row: Yury S. Galkin, Anatoly A. Blagonravov, and Prof. Leonid I. Sedov (Chair of the Commission for Interplanetary Travel)-Soviet Academy of Science, Leninski Gory, Moscow, Russia Dr. H.J. E. Reid and Floyd L. Thompson Langley Research Center. Second row: Boris Kit Translator, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Eugene C. Draley and Laurence K. Loftin, Jr. -Langley Research Center Arnold W. Frutkin and Harold R. Lawrence NASA Headquarters. Back row: T.Melvin Butler-Langley Research Center John W. Townsend Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Washington D.C., and George M. Low NASA Headquarters.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 1959-L-08164
Date: November 21, 1959
Soviet Scientists visit Langley Research Center
A group of Soviet scientists, members of the USSR Commission for Interplanetary Travel of the Soviet Academy of Sciences visited the NASA Langley Research Center on November 21, 1959. The group was in the United States as invited guests at a meeting of the American Rocket Society. That meeting took place in Washington, DC, and during the course of that meeting the group was invited to tour the Langley Research Center. Hopes of a reciprocal invitation to visit Soviet space research facilities were never fulfilled. Left to right: Front row: Yury S. Galkin, Anatoly A. Blagonravov, and Prof. Leonid I. Sedov (Chair of the Commission for Interplanetary Travel)-Soviet Academy of Science, Leninski Gory, Moscow, Russia Dr. H.J. E. Reid and Floyd L. Thompson Langley Research Center. Second row: Boris Kit Translator, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Eugene C. Draley and Laurence K. Loftin, Jr. -Langley Research Center Arnold W. Frutkin and Harold R. Lawrence NASA Headquarters. Back row: T.Melvin Butler-Langley Research Center John W. Townsend Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Washington D.C., and George M. Low NASA Headquarters.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 1959-L-08164
Date: November 21, 1959