Title from caption on object: “Orbiting”, May 24, 1962

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Medium

gelatin silver print

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.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.541

Artists / Makers

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

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary