Launch of Freedom 7, first spacecraft carrying an American into space; Earth horizon and black sky of space seen by Alan Shepard, May 5, 1961

NASA; camera on Mercury Redstone 3

Price Realised GBP 875
Estimate
GBP 1,500 - GBP 2,500
Closed: 19 Nov 2020
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Launch of Freedom 7, first spacecraft carrying an American into space; Earth horizon and black sky of space seen by Alan Shepard, May 5, 1961

NASA; camera on Mercury Redstone 3

Price Realised GBP 875
Closed: 19 Nov 2020
Price Realised GBP 875
Closed: 19 Nov 2020
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24 a
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Launch of Freedom 7, the first spacecraft carrying an American into space

Mercury Redstone 3, May 5, 1961, 000:00:02 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption (indicating the print was made in 1962-1963) and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA S-61-1928” in red in top margin

24 b
Taken by a 70mm Maurer Earth Sky automatic camera mounted on the Freedom 7 spacecraft

Earth horizon and black sky of space seen by the first American in space

Mercury Redstone 3, May 5, 1961

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered “2” in top right margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)
Literature
24 a
Chaikin, Space, p. 40 (variant); National Geographic, September 1961, p. 425 (variant).
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