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The Museum hosts a two-day symposium, "Space
Science Comes of Age," with James A. Van Allen,
discoverer of the Van Allen Radiation Belts; Eugene
Shoemaker, California Institute of Technology; Robert
Jastrow, Goddard Institute of Space Studies; and
Lyman Spitzer Jr., Princeton University (March 23). |
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The Museum's Theater is renamed the Samuel
Pierpont Langley Theater, in honor of the
third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (May
1). |
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Celebrating its 5th anniversary, the Museum opens
a major exhibition, Jet
Aviation, and remains open to the public
until midnight (July 1). |
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