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[Mercury Redstone 3] Launch day of the first US space mission: the Redstone rocket in clouds of vapor; John Glenn and Dr. Douglas checking Freedom 7 in the White Room. Bill Taub, 5 May 1961. Printed 1961. Two vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper. The first 18×22.8 cm, the second 21×29 cm, blank on the versos (NASA HeadQuarters, Washington, D.C.). (2). Two extremely rare views of the first US manned space mission taken by Bill Taub on launch day while Alan Shepard boarded the Freedom 7 spacecraft at Cape Canaveral’s Pad 5. First photograph: On the morning of May 5th a special van (foreground) transported Alan Shepard from his isolated living quarters on Cape Canaveral to Launch Complex 5 where the Mercury Redstone 3 awaited in a glow of floodlights and clouds of vapor as liquid oxygen was being pumped into the rocket. Second photograph: Though he was the first astronaut to go into space, Alan Shepard was aided at every step by many knowing men, including his six colleagues. While Shepard was inside Freedom 7 (out of view to the right) in the White Room at Cape Canaveral’s Pad 5 for launch, the astronauts’ physician Dr. William K. Douglas (right) checked his condition, John Glenn (left) made sure the capsule was ready for him; Gordon Cooper briefed him on weather and the missile; Gus Grissom rode with him in the van and stayed with him until the hatch was closed; Scott Carpenter and Walter Schirra chased after the Redstone in F-106 jets to study its flight and Donald Slayton sat in the Mercury Control Center to communicate with Shepard over the radio so he would get instructions from a familiar voice. (from LIFE magazine, May 12, 1961, p. 20). Condition Light edgewear and very minor crease to bottom left of first print, very small identations to top of second print, otherwise excellent Preview In Lyngby Auction Space, 15 November 2023 Category Photos ▸ Vintage photographs Selling 15 November at 6:02 pm Estimate 3,000–5,000 DKK
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