Beschreibung:

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) Please note this lot is the property of a private individual.