I was not aware of that. Astbury's later student Elwyn Beighton got B-DNA diffraction photos in 1951 which are nearly as good as the famous "photograph 51". Astbury never published them, nor apparently did anything with them (from The Man in the Monkeynut Coat by Kersten Hall).

"...this new knowledge has all to do with honor and country but it has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to help make it worth defending." RR Wilson congressional testimony justifying Fermilab (1969). history.fnal.gov/historical/p...