First US TV pictures from space; recovery of Faith 7 and Cooper’s parade with Vice-President Johnson, Mercury Atlas 9, May 1963; the Mercury Seven monument, December 1964 - photo 1
First US TV pictures from space; recovery of Faith 7 and Cooper’s parade with Vice-President Johnson, Mercury Atlas 9, May 1963; the Mercury Seven monument, December 1964 - photo 2
First US TV pictures from space; recovery of Faith 7 and Cooper’s parade with Vice-President Johnson, Mercury Atlas 9, May 1963; the Mercury Seven monument, December 1964 - photo 3
First US TV pictures from space; recovery of Faith 7 and Cooper’s parade with Vice-President Johnson, Mercury Atlas 9, May 1963; the Mercury Seven monument, December 1964 - photo 4
First US TV pictures from space; recovery of Faith 7 and Cooper’s parade with Vice-President Johnson, Mercury Atlas 9, May 1963; the Mercury Seven monument, December 1964 - photo 5
First US TV pictures from space; recovery of Faith 7 and Cooper’s parade with Vice-President Johnson, Mercury Atlas 9, May 1963; the Mercury Seven monument, December 1964 - photo 6
First US TV pictures from space; recovery of Faith 7 and Cooper’s parade with Vice-President Johnson, Mercury Atlas 9, May 1963; the Mercury Seven monument, December 1964 - photo 7
First US TV pictures from space; recovery of Faith 7 and Cooper’s parade with Vice-President Johnson, Mercury Atlas 9, May 1963; the Mercury Seven monument, December 1964 - photo 8
First US TV pictures from space; recovery of Faith 7 and Cooper’s parade with Vice-President Johnson, Mercury Atlas 9, May 1963; the Mercury Seven monument, December 1964 - photo 9
First US TV pictures from space; recovery of Faith 7 and Cooper’s parade with Vice-President Johnson, Mercury Atlas 9, May 1963; the Mercury Seven monument, December 1964 - photo 10
First US TV pictures from space; recovery of Faith 7 and Cooper’s parade with Vice-President Johnson, Mercury Atlas 9, May 1963; the Mercury Seven monument, December 1964 - photo 11
First US TV pictures from space; recovery of Faith 7 and Cooper’s parade with Vice-President Johnson, Mercury Atlas 9, May 1963; the Mercury Seven monument, December 1964 - photo 12
First US TV pictures from space; recovery of Faith 7 and Cooper’s parade with Vice-President Johnson, Mercury Atlas 9, May 1963; the Mercury Seven monument, December 1964 - photo 13
First US TV pictures from space; recovery of Faith 7 and Cooper’s parade with Vice-President Johnson, Mercury Atlas 9, May 1963; the Mercury Seven monument, December 1964 - photo 14
First US TV pictures from space; recovery of Faith 7 and Cooper’s parade with Vice-President Johnson, Mercury Atlas 9, May 1963; the Mercury Seven monument, December 1964 - photo 15
First US TV pictures from space; recovery of Faith 7 and Cooper’s parade with Vice-President Johnson, Mercury Atlas 9, May 1963; the Mercury Seven monument, December 1964 - photo 1

First US TV pictures from space; recovery of Faith 7 and Cooper’s parade with Vice-President Johnson, Mercury Atlas 9, May 1963; the Mercury Seven monument, December 1964

Lot 55
20.11.2020 00:00UTC +00:00
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£ 625
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 55 | First US TV pictures from space; recovery of Faith 7 and Cooper’s parade with Vice-President Johnson, Mercury Atlas 9, May 1963; the Mercury Seven monument, December 1964
Estimate value
£ 1 500 – 2 500
55 a
Taken by a slow scan TV camera on board the Faith 7 spacecraft

First American TV picture from space: Gordon Cooper in weightlessness inside the spacecraft

Mercury Atlas 9, May 15-16, 1963, orbit 17

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

55 b
Taken by a slow scan TV camera on board the Faith 7 spacecraft

First American TV picture from space: cloud cover over Central Florida

Mercury Atlas 9, May 15-16, 1963, orbit 18

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC caption on the verso, numbered “NASA S-63-7859” in black in top margin

55 c
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Splashdown in the Pacific Ocean and recovery of the Faith 7 spacecraft hosting Gordon Cooper on board USS Kearsarge

Mercury Atlas 9, May 16, 1963

Three vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), the first and second with NASA HQ captions on the versos, the third with NASA MSC caption on the verso and numbered “NASA S-63-7884” in black in top margin

55 d
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Gordon Cooper’s parade with Vice President Johnson, marking the end of Project Mercury

Mercury Atlas 9, May 21, 1963

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA HQ caption numbered “63-MA9-203” on the verso

55 e
Ed Thomas

The Mercury Seven Monument at Cape Kennedy’s Pad 14 at Sunrise

Project Mercury, December 1964

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA KSC caption, RCA Quality Control stamp and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)
Art style:Color photo
Auction house category:Photography
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