Title from caption on object: “Astronaut John Glenn Smiles Happily...”, February 20, 1962

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 24.6 × 17 cm (9 11/16 × 6 11/16 in.)

sheet: 25.4 × 20.5 cm (10 × 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.538

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (artist) American, est. 1958

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Inscription

on verso, upper center NASA logo and copyright stamp in purple ink; upper center stamped in purple ink: FOR RELEASE: February 21, 1962 / PHOTO NO. 62-MA6-143 / MA6-39; center stamped in purple ink: CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA., -- Astronaut John Glenn smiles happily / after his successful three orbit flight around the earth, on / board the destroyer. USS NOA 21 minutes after landing near / Grand Turk Island.; center Culver Pictures, Inc. copyright stamp in black ink; lower center printed in black ink on applied barcode label: PEO065 CP003 019 People: GID - GOD / Origin: Culver Pictures Inc Old # Print BW / Glenn, John (1921-) Amer astronaut/US Senator OH; First Amer / in earth orbit (2/20/1962).; bottom center stamped in purple ink: PHOTO CREDIT--NASA or Nation Aeronautics and Space Administration; bottom right printed in black ink on applied barcode label perpendicular: [illegible].com / NQ488

Provenance

Culver Pictures, Inc., New York. Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary