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 Identifier

NASM.1999.0029

Creator

Enkenhus, Kurt

Date

1957-1961

Provenance

John Anderson, Aero, gift, 1999, 1999-0029, unknown

Extent

1.88 Cubic feet ((4 flatboxes))

Archival Repository

National Air and Space Museum Archives

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of ten scrapbooks created by Dr. Kurt Enkenhus, who was director of the Aerodynamics Department at the Naval Ordnance Lab and a Professor at the von Karmen Institute, Brussels, Belgium. The scrapbooks, containing newspaper and magazine articles from a variety of American sources, document the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States. The scrapbooks also contain a small amount of articles on general US foreign policy and domestic issues.

Rights

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Restrictions

No restrictions on access

Topics

Space race

Astronautics

Astronautics and state

Cold War

Manned space flight

International relations

Type

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Clippings

Scrapbooks