Image:Spilhaus NASA.jpg

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July 29, 1955. Announcement of plans for the building and launching of the world's first man-made satellite.

The then Presidential press secretary James Hagerty is shown with five scientists during the meeting at which announcement of President Eisenhower's approval of the plan was made.

Front, left to right, are: Dr. Alan T. Waterman, Hagerty, Dr. S. Douglas Cornell and Dr. Alan Shapley. Standing, left to right: Dr. J. Wallace Joyce and Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus.

From: http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/gallerysput.html

Photo useful to illustrate bios of the men pictured (I'm uploading it for Spilhaus; could find no other PD pic of him).

histinfo@hq.nasa.gov didn't specify if this img was gov't work but I presume it is (due to presence of Press Secretary) and page on which it was presented displayed no notice otherwise.

NASA's terms of use in their reply (in part): "NASA images and written information are not protected by copyright unless noted. If copyrighted, permission should be obtained from the copyright owner prior to use. If not copyrighted, you may download photos or text you see on our Web sites provided that you supply proper attribution with a footnote."

So I shall presume this is free for use as gov't work with attribution to NASA.

I'm tagging this US Fed Gov't rather than NASA as I presume it's a White House shot, though since it came from NASA's web site they should get a footnote.

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• Alan Tower Waterman
• James Hagerty
• Athelstan Spilhaus