A group of 7 individually signed NASA portraits of each of the Mercury Seven astronauts. Color photographs.

Mercury Seven

Beschreibung

Each 10 x 8 inches. NASA, early 1960s. Corner creasing to a few of the images, otherwise fine. An attractive group of large, individual color portraits signed by each of the Mercury Seven: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan B. Shepard, and Deke Slayton. Shepard s and Carpenter s photographs are additionally inscribed. All are NASA publicity photographs; Schirra and Cooper are in space suites, the other five astronauts are in civilian dress. The Mercury Seven were America s first astronauts, selected by the NASA in April 1959 (some six months after the agency was established) to pilot space craft for Project Mercury; they quickly became national icons. All seven eventually flew in space; Shepard became the first American to enter space in 1961, and Glenn the first in orbit in 1962. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 78533

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