Senator Peter H. Dominick tours the Skylab Space Station training model during a visit to the Manned Spacecraft Center at NASA in Houston, Texas in 1971, 1971 November 27

Item

Identifier: M085.09.0187.0030.00001

Staff Only

Abstract

Sen. Dominick (R-Colo.) listens to Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin, M.D., National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut and 1st physician in space, as he discusses the Skylab Cluster during a tour of the Manned Spacecraft Center at NASA in Houston, Texas. Dr. Kerwin, standing in shirtsleeves, was a pilot on Skylab 2 (SL-2), the first manned mission to the Skylab 1 Space Station. Albert Fay is on the senator's right and Nancy P. Dominick, the senator's wife, stands on his left. Harry B. Combs, a Denver native, author, and aviator as well as a former president of Gates Learjet Corporation and founder of AMR Combs, stands slightly behind Mrs. Dominick. Comb's wife, Virginia (Ginney) Combs stands to his left. Charles Dyas stands with his hand on a stanchion. A sign dangling from the railing in the left side of the photograph reads Controlled Access Area.

Dates

1971 November 27

Digital Repository

Senator Peter H. Dominick tours the Skylab Space Station training model during a visit to the Manned Spacecraft Center at NASA in Houston, Texas in 1971

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

Materials are primarily in English. Some travel memorabilia may be in other languages.

Rights and Usage Statement

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Extent

1 Items (photograph)

Additional Description

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

Series 9 of 11 consists of Official Photos of Senator Dominick as well as family photos, phots with constituents and colleagues, official trips to Vietnam and elsewhere.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

8 x 10 inches glossy black and white

Related Materials

Digital reproduction. Denver, Colo. : University of Denver, Penrose Library, 2006. 1 photograph in 2 formats : digital, TIFF and JPG files, grayscale Mode of access: World Wide Web. Scanned 2005-11-18 with Dell computer, Pentium 4, 3.40 GHz, 3.39 GHz CPU; Epson Expression 1640XL flatbed scanner; Silverfast Ai 5 scanning software, Adobe Photoshop 7.0 editing software; 600 dpi, 8-bit grayscale. Master image saved as .tif file; access image saved at 150 dpi as .jpg file. Image file names: domi085tif0048.tif, domi085jpg000.48.jpg.