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Ben Franklin, a 3D model from NASA/Christopher R. Meaney

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Ben Franklin

Classification
3D model
Held by
NASA/Christopher R. Meaney, NASA
Credit
NASA/Christopher R. Meaney
Licence
Not subject to copyright in the United States (NASA), as NASA states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed

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About this object

At 8:56 P.M. (EDT) July 14, 1969, Grumman Aerospace Corporation’s research submarine Ben Franklin slipped beneath the surface of the Atlantic off the coast of Palm Beach, Florida. Its mission: to investigate the secrets of the Gulf Stream as it drifted northward at depths of 600-2,000 feet; to learn the effects on man of a […]