SPACE COVERAGE PHOTOGRAPHS

FINDING AID

INDIVIDUALS

• BROADCASTERS
• ASTRONAUTS AND SPACE PROGRAM FIGURES

• BROADCASTERS

BROADCASTERS

• TV-screen image of John Chancellor, left, and Tom Brokaw at NBC News Cape Canaveral FL bureau/studio, with view out the window behind them. Back of photo dated "12/16/81," but it is probably from about the time either of space shuttle Columbia's STS-1 original flight of 12-14 April 1981, by John W. Young and Robert Crippen, or its STS-2 return to space flight of 12-14 November 1981, by Joseph H. Engle and Richard H. Truly. (Photo Credit: NBC News.)

• "TRANSATLANTIC TEACH-IN"-caption indicates former US Ambassador to the United Nations Arthur Goldberg, CBS News Chief European Correspondent Charles Collingwood, and former US President Dwight D. Eisenhower "will talk via Early Bird satellite with European students on CBS News 'Town Meeting of the World'" on Tuesday 26 October 1965, 2200-2300 EST. Photo incorporates separate vertical head/chest shots of each man. (Photo Credit: CBS Television Network Press Information.)

• Desk shot, apparently taken in New York City circa early 1960s, of Sid Darion, producer of three-TV-network and four-radio-network pool coverage of "Faith 7" Mercury-Atlas flight of L. Gordon Cooper in May 1963 (in front of Darion is a scale model of Mercury capsule topped by its emergency launch escape system). (Photo Credit: ABC Photo Division Press Information.)

• TV-screen image of Alexander Kendrick reporting by gantry crane marked "TEST STAND" for 90-minute-long live and filmed CBS News special broadcast "Where We Stand," aired on Sunday 5 January 1958; the program dealt in part with space and science and also featured Howard K. Smith and Daniel Schorr, along with such experts as Dr. John P. Hagen, director of the pre-NASA Vanguard satellite program. (Source unknown.)

1. Head/chest shot of Ted Koppel, stationed by an image of a white-clouded, full-disk Earth, with North America visible, anchoring a year-end edition of "The Koppel Report" called "News From Earth," a one-hour broadcast aired Monday 26 December 1988. It tapped prominent experts to examine such long-term issues on this planet as the environment, racism, arms control and disarmament, and the destruction of nonhuman animals, addressing not only an immediate audience of Americans, but also possibly others off-Earth, on the chance that the broadcast's electronic signals someday "could be intercepted and translated by alien intelligence." Photo used in Broadcasting magazine, Monday 26 December 1988, page 89. (Source unknown, but probably ABC News.)
2. Same as above, only with Earth turned to show Arabia. (Source unknown, but probably ABC News.)

• TV-screen image of US astronaut Bonnie Blair talking with anchor Dan Rather at CBS News space studio at Cape Canaveral, with launch complex 39 visible in the background (Rather holds a scale model of the space shuttle Columbia orbiter vehicle, two solid rocket boosters, and then-white external tank); dated "12/15/81" on back, but evidently from April or November 1981, when astronauts flew the first and second space shuttle missions, aboard the orbiter vehicle Columbia. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)

• Head/chest shot in Mutual Radio News studio, with microphone, TV, and clock visible, identified on back as "Jim Slade, Mutual News Space Correspondent"; undated but possibly circa early 1970s. (Photo Credit: Ankers Photographers/DC.)

• Outstandingly remarkable landscape-mode photo; probably best on space coverage in this collection. Shows Robert J. Wussler, wearing suit and tie and headset in a CBS main control room in New York City, serving as executive producer for CBS News live special-events coverage of "Man on the Moon: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11." Evidently taken on Sunday afternoon 20 July 1969, just before the Lunar Module "Eagle" touched down at Tranquility Base. More than 20 monitors are visible behind Mr. Wussler, including one showing a close-up of anchor Walter Cronkite, another with a two-shot of Mr. Cronkite and former astronaut-expert consultant Wally Schirra on-set in Studio 46 at CBS News Space Headquarters/New York, others featuring NASA Mission Operations Control Room/Houston, one displaying a "TIME TO LANDING" countdown clock, and one remote marked "BETHPAGE," referring to Lunar Module-maker Grumman's Long Island NY facility (where a full-scale LM mock-up, available for use in the broadcast, sat on a mock lunar landscape inside a temporarily converted hangar building). A sheaf of notes or rundowns lie in front of Mr. Wussler. Six other men, and various phones and other equipment, can also be seen in the picture. (Possible photo credit to either CBS News or Broadcasting magazine, but unclear.)[File also contains a much-later two-shot of Mr. Cronkite with Mr. Wussler in suits. (Source unknown.)] Back to Top
  
  The UMCP Broadcasting Archives photo files on the following individuals, who had some significant or occasional involvement in network television and/or radio coverage of the space program, DO NOT CONTAIN photos related to space coverage (primary news organization[s] affiliations included in parentheses):
  • Robert "Bob" Abernathy, NBC News
  • Robert Asman, NBC News
  • Burton Benjamin, CBS News
  • Tom Brokaw, NBC News (BUT in one photo with John Chancellor)
  • Clarence H. J. Cross, CBS News
  • Morton Dean, CBS News and ABC News
  • Douglas Edwards, CBS News
  • Dr. Frank Field, NBC News
  • Jeff Gralnick, CBS News, ABC News, and NBC News
  • Peter Hackes, CBS News and NBC News
  • Bruce Hall, CBS News
  • John Hart, CBS News, NBC News, and Monitor Television
  • George E. Herman, CBS News
  • Don Hewitt, CBS News
  • Richard C. Hottelet, CBS News
  • Peter Jennings, ABC News
  • Herbert Kaplow, ABC News
  • Charles Kuralt, CBS News
  • Elmer Lower, CBS News, NBC News, and ABC News
  • James W. "Jim" Kitchell, NBC News and CNN
  • Charles Kuralt, CBS News
  • [Mr.] Leslie "Les" Learned, Mutual Broadcasting
  • John F. Lynch, ABC News
  • William R. McAndrew, NBC News
  • William McSherry, ABC News
  • Gordon Manning, CBS News and NBC News
  • Merrill "Red" Mueller, NBC News
  • Ron Nessen. NBC News
  • Robert "Shad" Northshield, NBC News and CBS News
  • Ike Pappas, CBS News
  • Frank Reynolds, ABC News
  • Joan Richman, CBS News
  • Bob Schieffer, CBS News
  • David Schoumacher, CBS News and ABC News
  • Bill Shadel, ABC News
  • Roger Sharp, ABC News
  • Bernard Shaw, CBS News and CNN
  • Robert Siegenthaler, ABC News
  • Bill Stout, CBS News
  • Dallas Townsend, CBS News
  • Robert Trout, CBS News and ABC News
  • Garrick Utley, NBC News
  • Mike Wallace, CBS News
  • Av Westin, CBS News and ABC News
  The UMCP Broadcasting Archives individual photo files apparently DO NOT CONTAIN any individual-file photos of the following people, who had some significant involvement in network television and/or radio coverage of the space program, either on the air or behind the cameras (as noted below, photos of some of these people are included in the subject photo files):
  • Joel Banow, CBS News
  • Jay Barbree, NBC News (BUT in space coverage general photo files)
  • Howard Benedict, Associated Press and AP Radio
  • Jim Burnes, ABC News
  • John Dancy, NBC News
  • Vern Diamond, CBS News
  • David Dow, CBS News
  • Dave Dugan, CBS News
  • Eric Engberg, Group W and CBS News
  • Charles von Fremd, CBS News
  • Christopher Glenn, CBS News
  • James Hagerty, ABC News
  • Edward Hanna, NBC News
  • Jim Hartz, NBC News
  • Erin Hayes, CBS News and ABC News
  • John Holliman, CNN
  • Jack Kelly, KMOX-TV Saint Louis MO and CBS News
  • William "Bill" Lord, ABC News
  • Bruce McFadden, United Press International Radio
  • Frank McGee, NBC News
  • Carolyn Mauritz, ABC News and NBC News
  • Anthony Missouri, NBC News
  • Anne Morrissey, CBS News
  • Bruce Morton, CBS News and CNN
  • George Murray, NBC News
  • Roy Neal, NBC News (BUT in space coverage general photo files)
  • Miles O'Brien, CNN
  • Jack Perkins, NBC News
  • Robert J. Quinn, ABC News
  • Victor Ratner, affiliations uncertain
  • Steve Rowan, CBS News
  • Russ Ward, NBC News
  • Steve Young, CBS News and CNN
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  ASTRONAUTS and SPACE PROGRAM FIGURES

  The UMCP Broadcasting Archives DO CONTAIN photos of the following astronauts and other prominent space program figures (though not necessarily directly related to space coverage):
  
  Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Mercury 7 astronaut (1 PHOTO)
  • Posed-portrait in dress suit, possibly from late 1960s or 1970s. (Source unknown.)
  Eugene A. "Gene" Cernan, Gemini 9, Apollo 10 and Apollo 17 astronaut, (and later a space consultant to ABC News) (1 PHOTO)
  
  • TV-screen image of "GENE CERNAN Former Astronaut" inside the ABC News space studio at Cape Canaveral FL, with launch complex 39 visible in the background (apparently taken during ABC News space shuttle return-to-flight coverage in September-October 1988). (Probable photo credit: ABC News.)
  John H. Glenn, one of Mercury 7 astronauts, first American in orbit("Friendship 7", 1962), later a US Senator, D-OH and oldest person to fly in space (STS-95, 1998) (1 PHOTO)
  • Congressional testimony shot from circa 1 March 1962 (plus many politically related ones). (Source unknown.)
  Paul Haney, NASA public affairs official (3 PHOTOS)
  1. At-podium shot from 1971 National Association of Broadcasters event. (Photo Credit: Del Ankers Photographers, Washington, D.C.)
  2. Another shot from 1971 National Association of Broadcasters event. (Photo Credit: City News Bureau Inc./Striar Corp., Washington, D.C.)
  3. Head/chest shot dated 1969. (Photo Credit: Wide World Photos [AP].)
  Carl Sagan, astronomer, NASA planetary science investigator, and PBS TV "Cosmos" series host (15 PHOTOS)
  1. Familiar classic head-chest posed photo of a smiling Carl Sagan, wearing a turtleneck, leaning casually on a Mars globe, with date 24 March 1977 stamped on the back. A National Association of Broadcasters label identifies him as "Director, Laboratory for Planetary Studies, and David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York." (Photo credit: Ankers Capitol Photographers/Washington, DC)
  2. Head-chest shot of Carl Sagan, in a coat and turtleneck, apparently at a podium against a curtain backdrop. (Photo Credit: Oscar & Associates, Commercial Photographers, Chicago)
  3. Contact proof sheet of 8 photos, dated on back 16 September 1977, of Carl Sagan at a podium addressing "INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATIONS." The seated man to Sagan's left has a name placard marked "D'ARCY" in front of him. (Photo Credit: Ankers Capitol Photographers, Washington, DC)
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  11. Head-chest shot captioned in part, "Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Dr. Carl Sagan reports on science, medicine, and technology for '20/20,' the ABC News magazine program…ON AIR: TUESDAY, JUNE 6 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT [1978." Date written on back, 12/83, does not appear relevant. (Photo Credit: ABC Press Relations.)
      
      
  12. For "Cosmos" series, Carl Sagan uses a Viking Lander (outdoors in a cold, hilly locale) to explain experiments conducted on Mars in "Blues for a Red Planet," Episode 5 (of 13), to air at 2000 ET on Sunday 15 May. The series premiered in September 1980, so this was from a rebroadcast, possibly in 1983 or 1988. Captioned three-quarter-length photo of Sagan shows him in a cold-weather coat and turtleneck. (Photo Credit: Bill Ray.)
      
      
  13. Captioned photo shows a smiling Carl Sagan holding a lengthy, tangled strip of paper with lots and lots (but not billions and billions) of zeros on it. "Carl Sagan, host and writer of COSMOS, is seen on location at Cambridge University's Trinity College as he explores the infinity of the universe in 'The Lives of the Stars,'" Episode 9 (of 13), to air at 2000 EDT on Sunday 12 June on PBS. The series premiered in September 1980, so this was from a rebroadcast, possibly in 1983 or 1988 or 1994. (Photo Credit: Bill Ray.)
  14. Astronomer-environmentalist-peace-advocate Dr. Carl Sagan, U.S. Admiral Noel Gayler, and Notre Dame University President Father Theodore Hesburg are seated in chairs on a simple futuristic set, with two big TV monitors in the rear showing a prominent Soviet Union spokesman, left, and Soviet space scientist Roald Sagdeev, right (he is now a faculty member at the University of Maryland-College Park). Probably from 1980s. (Source Unknown.)
  15. Close-up of Carl Sagan and Adm. Noel Gayler (partly obscured) seated on same set as above, with full-disc Earth image in the background. Probably from 1980s. (Source Unknown.)
  Walter M. "Wally" Schirra, Mercury 7 astronaut and longtime guest expert for CBS News from Apollo 11 through Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), 1969-1975 (1 PHOTO)
  • Casual head/chest shot, probably from 1960s. (Source unknown.)
  Alan B. Shepard, one of original Mercury 7 astronauts (2 PHOTOS)
  1. Strip shot of Alan B. Shepard taken from congressional testimony in Washington DC delivered by him, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, and John H. Glenn, circa Thursday 1 March 1962. (Source unknown.)
     
     
  2. Alan B. Shepard at podium of National Association of Broadcasting (NAB) event in 1971, glancing downward to his right at an award that had just been given to him; this photo ran in Broadcasting magazine on 5 April 1971 on page 63. Magazine caption reads, in part: Shepard "encored for special acclaim before an opening session of a National Association of Broadcasting convention [last Monday]" to be presented with a crystal memento of his 1971 Moon mission as Apollo 14's commander. (U.S. President John F. Kennedy had taken Shepard along as a guest when the president addressed an NAB meeting in Washington, DC, on Monday 8 May 1961, just three days after Shepard's "Freedom 7" suborbital flight of Friday 5 May 1961. (Photo credit: Oscar & Associates, Chicago.)
  Wernher Von Braun, German rocket pioneer, Saturn 5 rocket designer, and NASA official (3 PHOTOS)
  1. Shot of Wernher von Braun speaking at the Alabama State Fair in October 1961, with a WYDE microphone near the podium. (Source unknown.)
  2. Captioned head-chest shot of "Dr. Wernher von Braun, Director, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama." Used in Broadcasting magazine with "CBS Radio Story" on Monday 26 August 1968. (Photo Credit: Fabian Bachrach, New York.)
  3. Long photo caption dated March 1975 explains that "world-renowned space pioneer" Dr. Wernher von Braun, right, a board member of American Satellite Corporation, is discussing the firm's operations with ASC's Dallas Earth station manager, Mr. Mel Stauffer, during a recent visit. Dr. Von Braun was also vice president-engineering of ASC's parent company, Fairchild Industries of Germantown, MD. (Photo Credit: American Satellite Corporation.)
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  The UMCP Broadcasting Archives DO NOT CONTAIN photos in individuals' photo files of the following astronauts or other prominent space program figures (even photos not directly related to space coverage):
  • Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Gemini 12 and Apollo 11 astronaut
  • Neil A. Armstrong, Gemini 8 and Apollo 11 astronaut
  • Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction author, screenwriter, science writer, and CBS News space coverage guest for Apollos 10, 11, and 15
  • Michael Collins, Gemini 10 and Apollo 11 astronaut and director of Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum (and later a space consultant to CBS News after the Challenger space shuttle accident)
  • Leroy Gordon Cooper, one of original Mercury 7 astronauts
  • Jack King, NASA public affairs official/Voice of Apollo Launch Control
  • James A. "Jim" Lovell, Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8, and Apollo 13 and Apollo astronaut
  • Story Musgrave, six-mission space shuttle astronaut and scientist
  • Lt. Col. John A. "Shorty" Powers, NASA's "Voice of Mercury Control"
  • Harrison H. ("Jack") Schmidt, Jr., scientist-astronaut and geologist (also later a US Senator, R-NM)
  • David R. Scott, Gemini 8 and Apollo 9 and Apollo 15 astronaut
  • Russell L. "Rusty" Schweickart, Apollo 9 astronaut
  • Eugene Shoemaker, U.S. Geological Survey astrogeologist
  • Donald Kent "Deke" Slayton, one of Mercury 7 astronauts who finally flew on Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
  • John W. Young, Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, and space shuttle STS-1 and STS-9 astronaut and NASA official
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  ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH NEWSPAPER COLLECTION:

  BROADCASTERS

  In addition, the Library of American Broadcasting contains St. Louis Post-Dispatch TV photograph files on individuals DO CONTAIN at least an additional six space-coverage-related photographs, as follows:
  
  Walter Cronkite, CBS News (2 PHOTOS)
  
  1. Close-up of Walter Cronkite wearing headphone, dated 10 March 1965 and captioned: "Broadcast: 'Gemini: Two Men in Space,' now scheduled for March 23, 7:00 AM EST to at least the recovery of the astronauts, T 29182B-10-Full." This refers to Gemini 3 "Molly Brown" flight on Tuesday 23 March 1965, the first Gemini with astronauts aboard (Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom and John W. Young). (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
     
     
  2. Shot of Walter Cronkite, captioned, "Walter Cronkite will head a team of a dozen CBS Newsmen covering the Gemini two-man space flight now scheduled for Tuesday, March 23 on CBS-TV (7:00 AM EST, until at least the recovery of the astronauts). For the broadcast, GEMINI: TWO MEN IN SPACE, CBS News reporters will be at Cape Kennedy, at the McDonnell Aircraft plant in St. Louis where Gemini was built, and at the astronauts' homes." This also relates to Gemini 3. (Photo Credit: CBS News.)
  Chet Huntley, NBC News (2 PHOTOS)
  1. Anchor Chet Huntley in stripped-out section of group shot of NBC News team prepared to cover Gemini 4 flight of 3-7 June 1965 by James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White, during which White took the first American spacewalk (also included in original photo, based on partial caption remaining, were Frank McGee and David Brinkley). (Photo Credit: NBC News.)
  2. From NBC Television Network circa August 1962: Chet Huntley standing near a huge, possibly full-scale model of Telstar communications satellite, which "will relay the first live trans-Atlantic TV broadcasts. Huntley will be on-the-air reporter on two special NBC News programs covering the historic broadcasts. The first special will follow the launching of the satellite and the second will follow the first trans-Atlantic TV broadcast. The time and dates of the programs will be announced. Program: Telstar specials." (Photo Credit: NBC.)
  Roy Neal, NBC News (2 PHOTOS)
  1. Semi-formal portrait dated "4-62", just weeks before M. Scott Carpenter's "Aurora 7" Mercury Flight. (Possible Photo Credit: NBC News.)
     
     
  2. From NBC Television Network in April 1962: Roy Neal, wearing an earpiece with a bulbous mike in front, sits at NBC News desk with Cape Canaveral scrubland and launch pad in background; photo probably taken circa February 1962, about the time of the John H. Glenn flight; caption reads: "CAPE COUNTDOWN-Roy Neal, NBC News aerospace correspondent, will cover the orbital launch of astronaut M. Scott Carpenter, expected next month [May 1962] at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Neal's broadcasting booth is at the Cape Canaveral press site less than 3.2 kilometers from the launch pad. Program: Mercury-Atlas 7 man-shoot." Carpenter's "Aurora 7" orbital flight took place on Thursday 24 May 1962. (Photo Credit: NBC News.)
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