Official portrait of Gordon Cooper; Cooper checking out his spacesuit, Faith 7 spacecraft, flight couch, food, space and photographic equipment, 1962-May 1963 - photo 1

Official portrait of Gordon Cooper; Cooper checking out his spacesuit, Faith 7 spacecraft, flight couch, food, space and photographic equipment, 1962-May 1963

Lot 51
20.11.2020 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
£ 1 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 51 | Official portrait of Gordon Cooper; Cooper checking out his spacesuit, Faith 7 spacecraft, flight couch, food, space and photographic equipment, 1962-May 1963
Estimate value
£ 2 000 – 3 000
51 a
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Official portrait of astronaut Gordon Cooper

Mercury Atlas 9, September 1962

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA S-62-5530” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin

51 b
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Gordon Cooper checking out his Mercury pressure spacesuit

Mercury Atlas 9, 1962

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 21.2 x 25.6cm, with NASA HQ caption on the verso, numbered “NASA S-62-2266” in black in top margin

51 c
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Gordon Cooper checking out the Faith 7 spacecraft in the White Room at the top of the gantry during a simulated mission

Mercury Atlas 9, May 1963

Two vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA MSC captions on the versos, numbered “NASA S-63-6124 and S-63-6127” in black in top margin

51 d
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Gordon Cooper checking out his spacecraft flight couch before his ride through space

Mercury Atlas 9, May 1963

Four vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA HQ captions on the versos

51 e
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Experimental dehydrated space food and space equipment for the 22-orbit mission

Mercury Atlas 9, January-May 1963

Two vintage gelatin silver prints on fiber-based paper, each 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), the first with NASA MSC caption, RCA Quality Control stamp and NASA-USAF-Cape Canaveral caption on the verso, the second with NASA MSC caption on the verso, numbered “NASA S-63-6263” in black in top margin

51 f
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Gordon Cooper checking out photographic equipment with John Glenn before his space flight

Mercury Atlas 9, May 1963

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with RCA Quality Control stamp, NASA HQ caption numbered “63-MA9-78” and NASA-USAF-Cape Canaveral caption on the verso
21.2 x 25.6cm (81/2 x 10in)
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