![Artwork by NASA, The first image of a US astronaut in orbit: John Glenn in weightlessness inside Friendship 7 during the first US orbital mission, NASA [Mercury Atlas 6], Made of vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/124724224/-RE9UZ.Jpeg "Artwork by NASA, The first image of a US astronaut in orbit: John Glenn in weightlessness inside Friendship 7 during the first US orbital mission, NASA [Mercury Atlas 6], Made of vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper")
![Artwork by NASA, The first image of a US astronaut in orbit: John Glenn in weightlessness inside Friendship 7 during the first US orbital mission, NASA [Mercury Atlas 6], Made of vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/124729950/-IOG2Z.Jpeg "Artwork by NASA, The first image of a US astronaut in orbit: John Glenn in weightlessness inside Friendship 7 during the first US orbital mission, NASA [Mercury Atlas 6], Made of vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper")
![Artwork by NASA, The first image of a US astronaut in orbit: John Glenn in weightlessness inside Friendship 7 during the first US orbital mission, NASA [Mercury Atlas 6], Made of vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/124727896/-I1HUJ.Jpeg "Artwork by NASA, The first image of a US astronaut in orbit: John Glenn in weightlessness inside Friendship 7 during the first US orbital mission, NASA [Mercury Atlas 6], Made of vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper")
![Artwork by NASA, The first image of a US astronaut in orbit: John Glenn in weightlessness inside Friendship 7 during the first US orbital mission, NASA [Mercury Atlas 6], Made of vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/124725793/-HRWE5.Jpeg "Artwork by NASA, The first image of a US astronaut in orbit: John Glenn in weightlessness inside Friendship 7 during the first US orbital mission, NASA [Mercury Atlas 6], Made of vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper")
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The first image of a US astronaut in orbit: John Glenn in weightlessness inside Friendship 7 during the first US orbital mission, NASA [Mercury Atlas 6] 20 February 1962, printed 1963
vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper
8 h 脳 10 w in
20 脳 25 cm
62-MA6-168
-75%
below mid-estimate
Sale Date
Oct 28, 2022
Repeated Sales
3 Artworks
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![The first American in orbit on launch day: John Glenn prior to boarding Friendship 7 for the historic first US orbital mission, NASA [Mercury Atlas 6], 20 February 1962 by NASA, 20 February 1962, printed 1962](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/124653729/-NVUAK-570.Jpeg "The first American in orbit on launch day: John Glenn prior to boarding Friendship 7 for the historic first US orbital mission, NASA [Mercury Atlas 6], 20 February 1962 by NASA, 20 February 1962, printed 1962")
![The Apollo 13 crew back on Earth aboard USS Iwo Jima after the most perilous journey of Project Apollo, NASA [Apollo 13], 17 April 1970 by NASA, printed 1970](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/125324482/-3H5NR-570.Jpeg "The Apollo 13 crew back on Earth aboard USS Iwo Jima after the most perilous journey of Project Apollo, NASA [Apollo 13], 17 April 1970 by NASA, printed 1970")
![The crew going to the launch pad for liftoff on board the giant Saturn V rocket (two photos), NASA [Apollo 14], November 1970 - 31 January 1971 by NASA, printed 1970-1971](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/125327609/-8GRZL-570.Jpeg "The crew going to the launch pad for liftoff on board the giant Saturn V rocket (two photos), NASA [Apollo 14], November 1970 - 31 January 1971 by NASA, printed 1970-1971")
![The astronauts departing for the Moon (diptych), NASA [Apollo 12], 14 November 1969 by NASA, printed 1969](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/125304706/-ZLIYZ-570.Jpeg "The astronauts departing for the Moon (diptych), NASA [Apollo 12], 14 November 1969 by NASA, printed 1969")
!["Task Accomplished鈥� July 1969": celebrations at Mission Control, NASA [Apollo 11], 24 July 1969 by NASA, printed 1969](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/125347573/-7NFXL-570.Jpeg "\"Task Accomplished鈥� July 1969\": celebrations at Mission Control, NASA [Apollo 11], 24 July 1969 by NASA, printed 1969")
![TV picture of Eugene Cernan in weightlessness voyaging through deep space to the Moon, NASA [Apollo 10], 18-26 May 1969 by NASA, printed 1969](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/125039296/-OYZ4S-570.Jpeg "TV picture of Eugene Cernan in weightlessness voyaging through deep space to the Moon, NASA [Apollo 10], 18-26 May 1969 by NASA, printed 1969")
![TV pictures of the astronauts at House Rock and Shadow Rock, station 11 and 13 (two photos), NASA [Apollo 16], 16-27 April 1972, EVA 3 by NASA, printed 1972](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/125353763/-AYM7E-570.Jpeg "TV pictures of the astronauts at House Rock and Shadow Rock, station 11 and 13 (two photos), NASA [Apollo 16], 16-27 April 1972, EVA 3 by NASA, printed 1972")
![Portrait of Mercury Original Seven Scott Carpenter, the second American in orbit, NASA [Mercury Atlas 7]](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/124632695/-W0B2U-570.Jpeg "Portrait of Mercury Original Seven Scott Carpenter, the second American in orbit, NASA [Mercury Atlas 7]")
![First live B&W TV picture from a manned American spacecraft: Donn Eisele in weightlessness, NASA [Apollo 7], 11-22 October 1968](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/125434152/-13HDQ-570.Jpeg "First live B&W TV picture from a manned American spacecraft: Donn Eisele in weightlessness, NASA [Apollo 7], 11-22 October 1968")
![First human in deep space: live B&W TV picture of William Anders checking the 16mm camera telephoto lens during the first journey to another world, NASA [Apollo 8], 21-27 December 1968](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/125147935/-08MWB-570.Jpeg "First human in deep space: live B&W TV picture of William Anders checking the 16mm camera telephoto lens during the first journey to another world, NASA [Apollo 8], 21-27 December 1968")
![The historic first US manned mission into space; Alan Shepard preparing to board Freedom 7 for launch (two photos), NASA [Mercury Redstone 3], 5 May 1961](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/124622987/-J98N3-570.Jpeg "The historic first US manned mission into space; Alan Shepard preparing to board Freedom 7 for launch (two photos), NASA [Mercury Redstone 3], 5 May 1961")
![Richard Gordon鈥檚 鈥渟pace cowboy鈥� EVA riding the Gemini spacecraft, NASA [Gemini XI], 12-15 September 1966](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/124639238/-6NBV9-570.Jpeg "Richard Gordon鈥檚 鈥渟pace cowboy鈥� EVA riding the Gemini spacecraft, NASA [Gemini XI], 12-15 September 1966")
![The glorious launch of the first manned Apollo mission, NASA [Apollo 7], 11 October 1968](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/124933310/-Y3J6I-570.Jpeg "The glorious launch of the first manned Apollo mission, NASA [Apollo 7], 11 October 1968")
![Extremely rare TV picture of the Earth in the lunar sky at Descartes Base, NASA [Apollo 16], 16-27 April 1972, EVA 1](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/125347051/-71YS3-570.Jpeg "Extremely rare TV picture of the Earth in the lunar sky at Descartes Base, NASA [Apollo 16], 16-27 April 1972, EVA 1")
