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Unidentified photographer

Launch of Mercury-Redstone 2

JANUARY 31, 1961

Large-format presentation vintage chromogenic print with “EKC” watermarks and two stamps on the verso reading “McDonnell Aircraft Corporation” and “D4C-6359”.
28 x 35.6cm (11 x 14in)
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Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3) launching from Cape Canaveral on the Freedom 7 suborbital mission, America’s first human spaceflight. Aboard was astronaut Alan B. Shepard.

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