[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: 23 x 18.3 cm (9 1/16 x 7 3/16 in.)
Overall: 25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in.)
Gift of Glenn E. Matthews
2011.0098.0003
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-MR3-93/
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.
