Pioneering Mercury astronauts during first spaceflight trainings; test missions of first capsules designed for manned spaceflight [Mercury Atlas 1 and Redstone 1-A], February-October 1960 - photo 1
Pioneering Mercury astronauts during first spaceflight trainings; test missions of first capsules designed for manned spaceflight [Mercury Atlas 1 and Redstone 1-A], February-October 1960 - photo 2
Pioneering Mercury astronauts during first spaceflight trainings; test missions of first capsules designed for manned spaceflight [Mercury Atlas 1 and Redstone 1-A], February-October 1960 - photo 3
Pioneering Mercury astronauts during first spaceflight trainings; test missions of first capsules designed for manned spaceflight [Mercury Atlas 1 and Redstone 1-A], February-October 1960 - photo 4
Pioneering Mercury astronauts during first spaceflight trainings; test missions of first capsules designed for manned spaceflight [Mercury Atlas 1 and Redstone 1-A], February-October 1960 - photo 5
Pioneering Mercury astronauts during first spaceflight trainings; test missions of first capsules designed for manned spaceflight [Mercury Atlas 1 and Redstone 1-A], February-October 1960 - photo 6
Pioneering Mercury astronauts during first spaceflight trainings; test missions of first capsules designed for manned spaceflight [Mercury Atlas 1 and Redstone 1-A], February-October 1960 - photo 7
Pioneering Mercury astronauts during first spaceflight trainings; test missions of first capsules designed for manned spaceflight [Mercury Atlas 1 and Redstone 1-A], February-October 1960 - photo 8
Pioneering Mercury astronauts during first spaceflight trainings; test missions of first capsules designed for manned spaceflight [Mercury Atlas 1 and Redstone 1-A], February-October 1960 - photo 9
Pioneering Mercury astronauts during first spaceflight trainings; test missions of first capsules designed for manned spaceflight [Mercury Atlas 1 and Redstone 1-A], February-October 1960 - photo 10
Pioneering Mercury astronauts during first spaceflight trainings; test missions of first capsules designed for manned spaceflight [Mercury Atlas 1 and Redstone 1-A], February-October 1960 - photo 11
Pioneering Mercury astronauts during first spaceflight trainings; test missions of first capsules designed for manned spaceflight [Mercury Atlas 1 and Redstone 1-A], February-October 1960 - photo 12
Pioneering Mercury astronauts during first spaceflight trainings; test missions of first capsules designed for manned spaceflight [Mercury Atlas 1 and Redstone 1-A], February-October 1960 - photo 13
Pioneering Mercury astronauts during first spaceflight trainings; test missions of first capsules designed for manned spaceflight [Mercury Atlas 1 and Redstone 1-A], February-October 1960 - photo 14
Pioneering Mercury astronauts during first spaceflight trainings; test missions of first capsules designed for manned spaceflight [Mercury Atlas 1 and Redstone 1-A], February-October 1960 - photo 1

Pioneering Mercury astronauts during first spaceflight trainings; test missions of first capsules designed for manned spaceflight [Mercury Atlas 1 and Redstone 1-A], February-October 1960

Lot 18
20.11.2020 00:00UTC +00:00
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£ 500
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 18 | Pioneering Mercury astronauts during first spaceflight trainings; test missions of first capsules designed for manned spaceflight [Mercury Atlas 1 and Redstone 1-A], February-October 1960
Estimate value
£ 1 500 – 2 500
18 a
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

John Glenn in the Gimbal Rig Mercury Astronaut Trainer

Mercury Project, February-March 1960

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with a later March 1961 press caption affixed to the verso, numbered “NASA C-52741” (NASA Lewis Research Center) in black in top margin

18 b
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

The first Project Mercury space capsule

Mercury Atlas 1, July 1960

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA HQ caption numbered “60- MA1-4” on the verso and “60-MA1-4” label affixed to the recto at the bottom right, numbered “NASA B-60-1513” in black in top margin

18 c
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Liftoff of the Atlas rocket carrying the first Mercury spacecraft

Mercury Atlas 1, July 29, 1960

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA HQ caption numbered “60- MA1-6” on the verso and “60-MA1-6” label affixed to the recto at the top left

18 d
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Gordon Cooper in an early spacecraft simulator

Project Mercury, June - October 1960

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA caption on the verso, numbered “NASA B-60-1509” in black in top margin

18 e
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Project Mercury astronaut Donald Slayton preparing for centrifugeuse training

Project Mercury, October 1960

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA HQ caption on the verso, numbered “NASA G-60-1961” in black in top margin

18 f
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Liftoff

Mercury Redstone 1-A, December 19, 1960

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA caption numbered “PL 6-90766.1.” on the verso

18 g
NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Portrait of Walter Schirra in the Environmental Test Spacecraft

Project Mercury, January 1961

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 21.5 x 25.6cm, with NASA HQ caption on the verso, numbered “NASA G-61-331” in black in top margin
21.5 x 25.6cm (81/2 x 10in)
Auction house category:Photography
Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
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