First picture of a human during spaceflight: Alan Shepard aboard Freedom 7 during America’s first space mission, May 5, 1961

Lot 26
20.11.2020 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 26 | First picture of a human during spaceflight: Alan Shepard aboard Freedom 7 during America’s first space mission, May 5, 1961
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£ 1 500 – 2 500
Taken by a pilot observer movie camera inside the Freedom 7 Spacecraft

Alan Shepard, first American in space, aboard Freedom 7 during the suborbital flight

Mercury Redstone 3, May 5, 1961

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA HQ caption numbered “61- MR3-104” on the verso
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)
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