Title from caption on object: “Glenn Cares for Inner Man”

February 20, 1962

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Artist, American, est. 1958

Associated Press

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.5 × 24 cm (6 7/8 × 9 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.6 × 25.4 cm (8 1/8 × 10 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.537

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Inscriptions

vertical along right edge printed in image: (NY24-FEB.22) GLENN CARES FOR INNER MAN--Astronaut John Glenn opens / visor of his space helmet, top left, reaches toward pouch, top right, / and extracts from it, lower left, a collapsible tube of food, and / proceeds to eat, lower right. This sequence of events occurred at / 10:09 a.m. Eastern Standard time, Feb. 20, during Glenn’s orbital / space flight from Cape Canaveral. (NASA Photo via AP Wirephoto / (jsb51200 [illegible]) 1962; on verso, upper right stamped in red ink perpendicular: FEB 23 1962; along right edge stamped in black ink: SPACE SHIPS: MERCURY - ORBITAL - 1ST. - MANNED / GLENN, JOHN H. JR. / 866 - 54 C; bottom center printed in black ink on applied barcode label inverted: ADT-275-BS; bottom center stamped in black ink inverted: OTHER

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