COLLECTION NAME:
NASA Great Images in Nasa Collection
Record
Title:
German Titov, John Glenn and JFK at the White House
Full Description:
Second cosmonaut German Titov (right) appears with NASA astronaut John Glenn and President John Kennedy at the White House in 1962. Titov was in Washington to give his account of the Vostok 2 spaceflight to the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR). The twenty-five-year-old Titov was the youngest person to ever go into space - a record that still stands to this day.
Date:
05/03/1962
NASA Center:
Headquarters
Publication Information:
Image from the files of Asif Siddiqi. Image and caption from Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945- 1974 (NASA SP-2000-4408) by Asif A. Siddiqi. Please note that the image number assigned to this image is not an official NASA number. It is for GRIN database purposes only.
Subject Category:
Astronauts
Keywords:
COSPAR
Audience:
General Public
facet_what:
Mercury
facet_where:
Mercury
facet_who:
John H. Glenn
facet_when:
05-03-1962
facet_when_year:
1962
Image #:
jfkandtitov1962
UID:
SPD-GRIN-GPN-2002-000170
Center:
HQ
Center Number:
jfkandtitov1962
GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2002-000170
Source-Capture Information:
Asif Siddiqi
Original Source:
DIGITAL
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