[View of the earth taken from the Freedom Spacecraft #7]
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Photograph
[View of the earth taken from the Freedom Spacecraft #7]
May 5, 1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 19.3 x 24 cm (7 5/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
Overall: 20.1 x 25.4 cm (7 15/16 x 10 in.)
Gift of Glenn E. Matthews
2011.0098.0002
Inscriptions verso (typed in purple ink): NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION/ WASHINGTON 25, D.C./ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE/ May 6, 1961/ NASA PHOTO NO./ 61-MR3-92/
View of the earth taken from the Freedom Spacecraft #7./ Alan B. Shepard, Jr. first U.S. man in space saw this view/ at about peak altitude of his Mercury-Redstone flight down/ the Atlantic Missile Range. The original film from the earth/ sky camera was in color. The Florida coast can be seen in/ the color reproduction.
View of the earth taken from the Freedom Spacecraft #7./ Alan B. Shepard, Jr. first U.S. man in space saw this view/ at about peak altitude of his Mercury-Redstone flight down/ the Atlantic Missile Range. The original film from the earth/ sky camera was in color. The Florida coast can be seen in/ the color reproduction.
