![Artwork by NASA, The historic liftoff of Freedom 7, carrying the first American, Alan Shepard, into space, NASA [Mercury Redstone 3], 5 May 1961, Made of vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/124648040/-OYZW8.Jpeg "Artwork by NASA, The historic liftoff of Freedom 7, carrying the first American, Alan Shepard, into space, NASA [Mercury Redstone 3], 5 May 1961, Made of vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper")
![Artwork by NASA, The historic liftoff of Freedom 7, carrying the first American, Alan Shepard, into space, NASA [Mercury Redstone 3], 5 May 1961, Made of vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/124650692/-8H1H4.Jpeg "Artwork by NASA, The historic liftoff of Freedom 7, carrying the first American, Alan Shepard, into space, NASA [Mercury Redstone 3], 5 May 1961, Made of vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper")
NASA
The historic liftoff of Freedom 7, carrying the first American, Alan Shepard, into space, NASA [Mercury Redstone 3], 5 May 1961 printed 1961
vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper
10 h 脳 8 w in
25 脳 20 cm
NASA S-61-2105
-73%
below mid-estimate
Sale Date
Oct 28, 2022
Repeated Sales
2 Artworks
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![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 by NASA, 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 by NASA, 5 May 1961")
![The Grand Finale of Project Apollo: the Last Men on the Moon safely back to Earth on board USS Ticonderoga (two photos), NASA [Apollo 17], 19 December 1972 by NASA, printed 1972](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/125103598/-PRC80-570.Jpeg "The Grand Finale of Project Apollo: the Last Men on the Moon safely back to Earth on board USS Ticonderoga (two photos), NASA [Apollo 17], 19 December 1972 by NASA, printed 1972")
![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 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 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] by NASA, 20 February 1962, printed 1963](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/124724224/-2WZ15-570.Jpeg "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] by NASA, 20 February 1962, printed 1963")
![NASA Research Pilot Neil Armstrong following a flight with a X-15 experimental rocket plane, NASA [X-15 project] by NASA, printed 1962](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/124731776/-D107J-570.Jpeg "NASA Research Pilot Neil Armstrong following a flight with a X-15 experimental rocket plane, NASA [X-15 project] by NASA, printed 1962")
![Portrait of the first humans back from another world, NASA [Apollo 8], 27 December 1968](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/125211447/-TOQUF-570.Jpeg "Portrait of the first humans back from another world, NASA [Apollo 8], 27 December 1968")
![The astronauts departing for the Moon (diptych), NASA [Apollo 12], 14 November 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")
![The Saturn V rocket heading to the Moon, NASA [Apollo 14], 31 January - 9 February 1971](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/125302393/-7KH9N-570.Jpeg "The Saturn V rocket heading to the Moon, NASA [Apollo 14], 31 January - 9 February 1971")
![The first Gemini astronauts, NASA [Gemini III]](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/124710997/-BXMEL-570.Jpeg "The first Gemini astronauts, NASA [Gemini III]")
![Recovery of the spacecraft in the Atlantic Ocean after three days in space, NASA [Gemini X], 21 July 1966](https://media.mutualart.com/Images/2022_10/19/12/124738389/-GOLLE-570.Jpeg "Recovery of the spacecraft in the Atlantic Ocean after three days in space, NASA [Gemini X], 21 July 1966")
