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 Summary

Black and white digital images of Neil Armstrong at the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) hosted by USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad in May 1970.

 Biographical / Historical

In 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon after successfully commanding Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing mission. The following year in early May the USSR Academy of Sciences [now the Russian Academy of Sciences] invited Armstrong to travel to the Soviet Union and speak at the 13th annual conference of the International Committee on Space Research (COSPAR). Spending five days in Leningrad [now St. Petersburg], he spoke at press conferences, narrated Apollo mission footage, and gave a talk about "Lunar Surface Exploration." Photographs in this collection were taken by a teenaged Aleksey Ostrovskiy. At this time, his mother worked within the USSR Academy of Sciences and arranged his attendance at a press conference in late May 1970.

 Identifier

NASM.2007.0041

Date

1970-05-25

Provenance

Aleksey Ostrovskiy, Gift, 2007, NASM.2007.0041

Extent

.1007 Gigabytes

Archival Repository

National Air and Space Museum Archives

Scope and Contents

This collection contains black and white digital images of Neil Armstrong at a press conference as part of the 13th annual session of the International Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) hosted by the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad [now the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg] in May 1970. Images are mostly candid shots and depict Armstrong surround by reporters and leaving in a car. Some Soviet astronauts including Georgy Beregovoy and Konstantin Feoktistov also attended the event. Also included are four digital images of the photographer, Aleksey Ostrovskiy. The black and white images were taken in 1970 when Ostrovskiy first captured the Armstrong photography. The comtemporary, color images are dated 2007 when he offered this donation.

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Citation

Neil Armstrong Digital Photography, NASM.2007.0041, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.

Topics

Astronautics

Type

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Gigabytes

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Digital images