U.S. Space Plans
Date: 29 Jul 1955

An American team at a press conference announcing plans for the building and launching of the first man-made satellite.

The then presidential press secretary James Hagerty is shown with five scientists during the meeting at which announcement of President Eisenhower's approval of the plan was made.

Front, left to right, are: Dr. Alan T. Waterman, Hagerty, Dr. S. Douglas Cornell and Dr. Alan Shapley. Standing, left to right: Dr. J. Wallace Joyce and Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus.

Credit: NASA