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NASA – The “Early Seven” of the Mercury Program (April 1959) — #1644
€1,250.00
NASA. Famous historic photograph bringing together in a single image the “7 First Astronauts” in the history of the American conquest of space, selected in 1959.
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NASA. Famous historic photograph bringing together in a single image the “7 First Astronauts” in the history of the American conquest of space, selected in 1959. Each of these astronauts was selected for the MERCURY program, the first American human spaceflight program. From the bottom, left to right: Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donald K. Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr., and M. Scott Carpenter. Behind, from left to right: Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Virgil I. Grissom and L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. Chromogenic print. NASA logo and numbering in the margin on recto. NASA logo and typed caption on verso. 26.8 x 20.2 cm with margins.
