Title from caption on object: “Orbiting”

May 24, 1962

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Associated Names
National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Artist, American, est. 1958

Associated Press

Publisher

This is a photograph of a series of images showing a person inside a space suit with a helmet, wires, and various equipment. The full-description reveals a grid of four black and white photographs capturing the individual in a space suit, each image showing different states of activity or expression.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 16.3 × 20 cm (6 7/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 20.6 × 20.7 cm (8 1/8 × 8 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.541

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: 98E; on verso, upper center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: ORBITING: These photos / from an automatic camera / show some of Scott Car- / penter's reactions as he or- / bited the earth May 24. / Top left, he readied a / hand - held camera. Top / right, he shaded an eye / from the sunlight. Lower / left, he shielded his face. / Lower right, a shadow / moved across the interior / as he passed from daylight / to darkness. Seawater, / seeping after the capsule / landed, impaired the qual- / ity of the photographs.-- / N. A. S. A. photos by A. P. / wirephoto.; center stamped in red ink on applied newspaper: JUN 6 1962; center right stamped in red ink: JUN 6 1962

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