Wallop's Island Rocket

Dateca. 1959

Mediumgelatin silver print

Dimensions9 3/16 × 7 1/4 in. (23.3 × 18.4 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of John Airy

Object numberPA1982.180.789

DescriptionThis image depicts four men examining a sounding rocket at NASA's Pilotless Aircraft Research Station on Wallops Island, Virginia. The rocket is sitting on a raised platform at a roughly one-hundred-and-ten-degree angle. The rocket is light in color and has the letters "J. B" and "U.S.A. F" on it. One man is standing on the platform working at a panel while the other three are looking up at the rocket from the ground. In the background a large radar facility with a large radar dish on the roof can be seen.

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