Black and white photo of NASA Administrator T. Keith Glennan shows then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, Chairman of the Senate's Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, a sample of the aluminized Mylar film used to fabricate the 100-foot-diameter, automatically inflatable Echo I balloon. Project Echo was the U.S.'s first passive communications satellite that was launched into orbit on August 12, 1960 at 5:39 am EDT. Photo Credit: NASA [0003-0612-0811-5948] by 0003
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black and white, earth science, lbj, lyndon b johnson, lyndon johnson, nasa, passive communications satellite, people, people at nasa-naca, president, presidents, t keith glennan
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