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Auction archive: Lot number 7

The Original Seven Mercury astronauts, Langley Air Force Base, Project Mercury, 20 January 1961

Estimate
£500 - £700
ca. US$630 - US$882
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 7

The Original Seven Mercury astronauts, Langley Air Force Base, Project Mercury, 20 January 1961

Estimate
£500 - £700
ca. US$630 - US$882
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Bill Taub The Original Seven Project Mercury astronauts posing in test pilot suits near a Convair 106-B aircraft at Langley Air Force Base Project Mercury, 20 January 1961 Vintage chromogenic print on fibre-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10 in), RED NUMBERED NASA S-61-1250, with NASA caption and A KODAK PAPER watermarks on verso, (NASA Manned Spacecraft Center) Footnotes: NASA's head photographer Bill Taub took this famous photograph of the Mercury Seven the day Alan Shepard was selected by Space Task Group Director Robert Gilruth as the first astronaut to ride through space. Left to right, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Donald "Deke" Slayton.

Auction archive: Lot number 7
Auction:
Datum:
29 Jun 2023
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

Bill Taub The Original Seven Project Mercury astronauts posing in test pilot suits near a Convair 106-B aircraft at Langley Air Force Base Project Mercury, 20 January 1961 Vintage chromogenic print on fibre-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10 in), RED NUMBERED NASA S-61-1250, with NASA caption and A KODAK PAPER watermarks on verso, (NASA Manned Spacecraft Center) Footnotes: NASA's head photographer Bill Taub took this famous photograph of the Mercury Seven the day Alan Shepard was selected by Space Task Group Director Robert Gilruth as the first astronaut to ride through space. Left to right, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Donald "Deke" Slayton.

Auction archive: Lot number 7
Auction:
Datum:
29 Jun 2023
Auction house:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
United Kingdom
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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