Title

President Nixon with Dr. James Fletcher and Apollo 16 Astronauts, 1972. Creator: NASA.

Caption

President Nixon with Dr. James Fletcher and Apollo 16 Astronauts, 1972. A model of the Apollo-Soyuz spacecraft with docking adapter is shown to President Richard Nixon. The NASA Apollo 16 astronauts, John W. Young, Charles M. Duke, Thomas K. Mattingly, with NASA Administrator Dr. James C. Fletcher met with President Richard Nixon at the White House for a progress report on the Joint U.S. and U.S.S.R. Space Docking Project. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project launched three years later on July 15, 1975.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Space

Reference

HRM21B20_184

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

24,1Mb (745,7Kb) / 11,7in x 8,0in / 3506 x 2400 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male job man men politics country model space exploration science guy occupation color astronaut astronauts political scientist location century profession president concept spacecraft space exploration space travel attache seventies NASA politician United States of America administrator Colour 1970s physicist politicians 20th century American America USA Apollo 16 Apollo Mission James Richard Nixon photograph attaché united states John Watts Young John Richard National Aeronautics and Space Administration John Watts Young Fletcher Nixon NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration Richard Millhouse Nixon Richard M Nixon Apollo-Soyuz Test Project ASTP Heritage Space James C. James C. Fletcher Dr. James C. Fletcher James Chipman Fletcher James Chipman James Fletcher