Mercury (1958-1963) is the first American space project to send an American in space. Launched the 7th of October 1958, 6 days after the American spatial agency NASA officially opened, the program’s objectives were to send a human in space, to find a way to make it safely comeback on Earth and to study the effects of the absence of gravity on human body. The Mercury spacecraft was kept to a minimum, it allowed to carry only one person.
First aerial view of Solomon Islands.
S-63-6436 | May 16, 1963 | Blue Tab Number
Figure 14.26 – Extremely rare – Probably the first, human-taken (astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr), photograph of Solomon Islands, from Space.
Photo NASA, original photography
Vintage Chromogenic print on ‘A Kodak Paper’
25,4 x 20,32 cm / 10 x 8 inch
S-63-6434 | May 16, 1963 | Blue Tab Number
Figure 14.29 – Extremely rare – Probably the first, human-taken (astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr), photograph of the south coast of Arabia, Aden Gulf and Hadhramout mountains in Yemen, from Space.
Photo NASA, original photography
Vintage Chromogenic print on ‘A Kodak Paper’
25,4 x 20,32 cm / 10 x 8 inch
S-63-6433 | May 16, 1963 | Blue Tab Number
Figure 14.30 – Extremely rare – Aerial view of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco with clouds over the Atlantic Ocean, from Space.
Photo NASA, original photography
Vintage Chromogenic print on ‘A Kodak Paper’
25,4 x 20,32 cm / 10 x 8 inch
