Title from caption on object: “Orbiting”
May 24, 1962
Artist, American, est. 1958
Publisher
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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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